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...Mabini, a city of 41,000 overlooking the clear waters of Batangas Bay, used to be a busy farm town, where loaded trucks left twice a week carrying fruit to Manila. Today, nobody is making a living off the land. The local markets' produce comes from somewhere else, and the cost of living is inflated by residents' foreign salaries, which are easily 10 times local wages. In Little Italy, many workers have built sprawling, European-style homes - some complete with sweeping marble terraces, faux stone façades and fountains - years before they plan to return to the Philippines...
...orderly turnover." When it was Eisenhower's turn, he was determined to handle things better, and to their mutual surprise, he and Kennedy impressed each other when they met at the White House. The young President later found himself relying on Eisenhower for both private guidance and, after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, some public cover...
...Guantánamo Bay has been seeped in controversy for the greater part of the century. Located on the southeastern tip of Cuba, it is the only U.S base located in a communist country. The 45-square-mile site was originally used as a coaling station for U.S. Navy ships, under a lease drawn up in 1903. U.S. possession of Guantánamo was reaffirmed under former Cuban president Batista in 1934 with a provision that the lease could not be terminated without mutual consent - a provision that was challenged to no avail by Fidel Castro following the Cuban Revolution...
...Either way, it is clear that he will have to come up with a solution quickly. "Guantánamo Bay, for most people, is a lightning rod for everything that's wrong with the United States," says Scott Silliman, a law professor at Duke University and director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. "I'm not sure Obama would be able to back away from his campaign pledge...
...attorneys better understand the legal dilemmas surrounding the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, than Neal Katyal. In 2006, Katyal led a successful Supreme Court case challenging the legality of the Bush Administration's military tribunals in Guantánamo, a ruling that sounded one of the first death knells for Camp X-Ray. But two years later, difficult questions about how to close Guantánamo continue to vex legal minds ranging from Katyal to the advisers now gathering around President-elect Barack Obama. "This is a huge and difficult problem," says Katyal, who teaches national...