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Ahmadinejad's confrontational approach is reportedly causing consternation within Iran's clerical establishment, especially at the Supreme National Security Council, in which ultimately the decisions on the nuclear issue are made. In a recent TIME interview in Tehran, Larijani extended an olive branch of sorts to the Bush Administration, saying Iran could agree to direct talks with Washington on nuclear and other issues. "You have differences of views with us. Having differences of view does not mean animosity," he said. "We have no problems negotiating ... provided that Mr. Bush does not harangue us." The U.S. has ruled out direct nuclear...
...ignoring everything else,” he wrote. Lewis said yesterday that he has been working on the book since the summer of 2003. Lewis was forced from his post as dean in March 2003, when Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby restructured Harvard’s undergraduate branch by merging the College’s academic and social-life offices under Benedict H. Gross ’71. —Staff writer Daniel J. T. Schuker can be reached at dschuker@fas.harvard.edu...
...because of our firm position against capital punishment, we welcome the likely outcome of this scenario—a lifetime prison sentence, rather than a lethal injection, for Moussaoui. Yet, it will arrive due to less-than-fortunate circumstances. This episode reveals an impermissible misconduct from the executive branch and its prosecuting arm. True, it is no easy task to prosecute immensely complex cases against terrorist suspects. But considering the vast amount of resources required to build and prosecute a case like Moussaoui’s, the Department of Justice must be much more careful with its own and other...
...actions, we are concerned that the students may not have known of their right to refuse entry to an officer without a warrant. Students’ confusion may arise due to ambiguity over HUPD’s role within the University. On the one hand, HUPD is a branch of Harvard, privately funded and operated. On the other, HUPD officers are sworn special state police officers and are deputies of the Suffolk and Middlesex County Sheriff’s offices. Because of this, searches by HUPD carry the same consequences as searches by the Cambridge Police Department and ought...
...home.”In the case of the recent drug arrests, though, HUPD officers opted to take the alternative route: knock on doors and obtain consent from residents.DOCTRINE OF COLLUSIONIn recent months, the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court has grappled with the question of whether HUPD qualifies as a branch of the University or as a state-sanctioned police force.The Constitution’s fourth amendment search-and-seizure clause protects individuals from state actors—and not private citizens—attempting to enter their residences, says HLS Dane Professor of Law Lloyd L. Weinreb...