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Finally! After seven long years, the Obama administration has ordered that the detention of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay come to an end. A mere two days after his inauguration, President Obama signed several executive orders to close the facility within the year, terminate the CIA’s coercive interrogation program, and commission a policy review for the detainment and questioning of terrorist suspects in the future...
...McNally followed by a layup from Lin. Housman was then fouled and made both free throws, getting Harvard within striking distance. Cornell tried to pull away, scoring two baskets, but freshman Peter Boehm responded with a three pointer. The Big Red wasted another possession to keep the Crimson at bay, and Lin made them pay, giving Harvard its first lead of the game at 27-26 with a trey from long distance. But Cornell ended up finishing the last three and a half minutes of the half on a 7-3 run, taking back the lead. It was all Crimson...
...Impressive enough, even without taking into consideration a personal record-breaking 36 saves on Friday, a total of 62 saves over both games and a string of crucial interventions to keep the Big Red at bay...
When it comes to former detainees of the Guantánamo Bay prison, the Obama Administration is discovering that out of sight is certainly not out of mind. Since the President's decision to shut down the controversial holding center for terrorism suspects, not a week has gone by without a number of former inmates making headlines - and, from the U.S. perspective, for all the wrong reasons. The cases are a virtual Rorschach test of where you stand on the to-close-or-not-to-close-Gitmo debate. (See pictures from inside Guantánamo Bay...
...London FREE AT LAST A former resident of Britain who claims that the U.S. government had him tortured prior to his transfer to Guantánamo Bay was released and returned to the U.K. on Feb. 23. Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohamed (above) was arrested in Pakistan in 2002. He says he was then sent to Morocco and Afghanistan and tortured before ending up at Gitmo. The British government had been lobbying for Mohamed's release since 2007, and American authorities--who claimed he was planning a dirty-bomb attack on U.S. soil--dropped all charges in October...