Word: argument
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...unlawful combatants” to deny captured suspects the rights that covenants like Geneva were supposed to protect. Sands also cited administration memos arguing that interrogation rules mandated by conventions on torture could be overruled at the order of the U.S. President. Because of their arguments, Sands said, members of the Bush administration—including legal counsel—could be pursued by other signatories of international treaties. Sands cited as precedent the detention of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London in 1999 and a U.S. lawsuit in the aftermath of World War II which convicted individuals...
This is not to deny that women’s self-discovery may well proceed through such avenues as the ones outlined at the lecture in Emerson 105. Nor is the argument here that such public discussion should not take place. Rather, the organizers of the workshop should be held accountable for their disingenuous activity and false advertising: we can expect more from our own peers than the marketing of new goods to an unsuspecting group of students under the guise of personal expression and the breaking down of repressive taboos. College is presumably a moment for reflection and self...
...White House, the war, energy, poverty and the American drama of race. In the end, he said, it boiled down to this: ?Many of the people I saw and met in the Superdome down in New Orleans are not alive any more. That's why I make the argument for Mother Nature...
...have any reason to believe that Judge Alito, once elevated to be Justice Alito, would be likely to accept a constitutional challenge to the Solomon Amendment,” Minow wrote in an e-mail. “The statutory interpretation argument offered in our amicus brief might be appealing to him...but if forced to bet, I’d bet against that prevailing, too,” she added...
...time of peace. Berenson pointed to the Commander-in-Chief clause in Article Two of the Constitution as the legal source of the President’s executive power to act at his discretion during wartime. But Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann took issue with this argument. Heymann pointed out that while most wars have a definite time span, “terrorism is going to be with us for all of your lives.” He said that it was absurd for a president to claim special executive power in order to combat a war with...