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...torture has become palatable enough for Harvard’s legal scholars to debate its merits is testament to that fact. And no matter where the debate ends up, Alan Dershowitz is sure to play a central role in getting it there. So don’t bother writing to tell him how disappointed...
...banking, especially this year, is a cruel mistress and Pete did not get any job offers. By his count, he applied to 10 companies and got 10 fairly prompt rejection notices, with nary an invitation to even a first-round interview. Credit Suisse First Boston didn’t bother to inform him of its decision, while one industrious firm rejected him twice...
...weeks later, Lindh heard about the events of Sept. 11 on the radio. "According to [Lindh]," an FBI affidavit says, "it was his and his comrades' understanding at the time that bin Laden had ordered the attacks and that additional attacks would follow." That didn't seem to bother Lindh, who continued fighting with the Taliban for weeks, until U.S. bombs forced him and many Taliban to surrender. He eventually wound up at the Qala-i-Jangi prison compound, where CIA officer Johnny Spann tried to get him to talk; shortly afterward, prisoners rioted, killing Spann. Lindh was shot...
Genshaft hardly risks undergraduate riots. Although many students describe al-Arian as a popular teacher, 22 of U.S.F.'s 48 student senators voted to support his ouster (the rest abstained or didn't bother to show up). "The students are the ultimate consumers of the university, and they're more concerned about safety," says student senate president Sammy Kalmowicz, 23, a political-science major. Perhaps. But should Kalmowicz someday become a college professor, how safe will he feel, after the al-Arian firing, to speak his mind...
...confident you can win a referendum on the euro in this Parliament? BLAIR: If the economic tests are met, then I think it's the right thing for the country to do economically. Some say to me, "Why are you raising the euro issue, why bother? You have public services to sort out, you have a very weak Conservative opposition, why are you even bothering to raise this when obviously it's a difficult question?" The answer is, because there are certain issues upon which as a Prime Minister your duty is to say, "This is what I think...