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...answer these questions, Shieber invited several faculty members and administrators to brief the students on what they thought were the major concerns and problems regarding the University’s current policy on course registration...
...efforts to bar access to these and other witnesses, the government was forging new and untested legal theory. "An alien seized and detained abroad as an enemy combatant in the midst of a war is beyond the court's power to compel his testimony," prosecutors said in their brief to the Fourth Circuit. But the appellate judges said it was premature for them to intervene, sending the case back to Brinkema. On July 14, the government announced it would defy her order to allow Moussaoui to depose Binalshibh. While Brinkema was mulling over sanctions, she also granted the defense access...
...been fully conscious for 13 years, gazes in her mother's direction from her hospital bed, and her expression blooms from slack-jawed passivity to beatific smile. She seems happy, comforted, aware--at least those are the interpretations the naive viewer would be inclined to apply. There are other brief videos on terrisfight.org In one, Schiavo seems to follow the movements of a balloon with her eyes; in another, she appears to comply with a doctor's request to open her eyes. "Good job, young lady," says the doctor...
...West needs oil to function. Wasn't it better to invade while we could outgun the Iraqis than to wait and suffer more casualties later on? At least the world is rid of a despot. And who knows how many innocent Iraqi lives have been saved? I hold no brief for Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, but I support them in this. The daily death toll of allied troops is heartbreaking, but it will be worth it in the end. I am the father of a British soldier who served in Northern Ireland during the worst...
...does the same as a lower-level manager of sorts. Mike Hoagland ’07, as the director of the scientific organization (“The Institute”) in which Foustka works, is wonderfully stilted, and makes fabulous use of his body language; and in her brief appearance as Foustka’s landlady, Allison Smith ’06 contributes well. And finally, vigorous kudos to Pippi Kessler ’05 for her dynamically awesome entries and exits as the silent “Secret Messenger...