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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...
...open and letting people know what happened. You can tell people you got laid off without sounding really venomous about it. These are people you're going to want to work with in your future, especially if you work in a very tight industry or a region like the Bay Area, where people know each other for years and years. They just cycle through the various companies. You're going to see these people again. So the last thing you want is a reputation for being vicious. (See the 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...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...
...Virgin America’s new service in the future. “It should be cheaper than United,” she said. The San-Francisco-based company decided to start flying out of Boston because “it is a top destination from the San Francisco Bay Area and also LAX” said Patricia Condon, a spokeswoman for Virgin America. For the airline’s maiden flight from San Francisco to Boston, Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals—in drag as usual–welcomed the travelers on arrival. The Pudding?...
...Kelly said those bosses included the highly rated trio of Army Generals David Petraeus, Ray Odierno and Lloyd Austin. In typical Army fashion, they were conservative in their assessment of the battlefield, and always wanted more troops to keep potential trouble at bay. Kelly, a Marine on his third Iraq tour, said he sensed what was possible in Anbar while his Army bosses in Baghdad didn't. "Maybe because of my experience - and certainly because the Marines were doing so well - I had a sense that things were doable," Kelly said, "perhaps before other people had a sense that they...