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...Steven Cash, a former CIA intelligence officer and a co-chair of the D.C. Bar Association's Committee on National Security Law, Policy and Practice, believes that the Administration made the right decision in taking Abdulmutallab's case to federal court. "The argument that trying someone in a civilian court is a show of weakness is frankly outrageous," he says. "It is what we are proudest of and where our strength comes from...
...professionals who indulge in the fine dining and luxury malls ubiquitous in Asia's self-professed "world city." But affluent people run up against prejudice too, if they are dark-skinned. Stories of everyday discrimination are legion and often banal in their predictability: from being denied service in a bar or being unable to lease an apartment of one's choice and means. Hong Kong police practice racial profiling, routinely checking IDs of South Asians and sometimes frisking them, even when they are simply walking in the street. (This writer, an Indian, has been subject to such searches on numerous...
...Swakopmund Brauhaus One of the most charismatic places in town, the Brauhaus bar-restaurant, tel: (264-64) 402 214, makes you feel as though you are in deepest Germany, but 30 years ago. Locals go there for the beer - especially the Hansa, Tafel and Windhoek lagers - and the meat, particularly wiener schnitzel and game such as oryx and kudu...
...never too early to be an alumnus, eh?) packed into an awkwardly open space that mingled with tables of regular patrons in order to make that connection that would lead to that new, hip, and recession-proof job we all pine for. We think. There was no open bar to help grease the proceedings...
...Harvard Club of Toronto chose to host the event downtown at the Jump Bar, which is a “Big bold American-style bistro, packing plenty of bravado: sky-high glass atrium ceilings, rich wood interiors and a killer New York style bar.” Irony aside, it was quite a nice venue. The entire area surrounding the bar had been reserved by the HCT, and Cindy Maxwell '92, MD '97, President of the HCT, warmly greeted everyone personally and handed out nametags in English and French...