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...superheated debate about the use of American power in the age of terrorism. The U.S. has been criticized for mistreating Gitmo prisoners and denying their rights at a facility Amnesty International has controversially called the "gulag of our time." Along with lawmakers and human-rights groups, former President Jimmy Carter has called on Washington officials to shut the camp down. Even President George W. Bush told Fox News last week that his Administration was exploring alternatives to the detention center...
...Carter had this image problem that people perceived him as a weak president,” says Rosenberg, who chaired the Crimson Editorial Board. “This draft registration was part of his ‘get tough,’ or ‘seem tough,’ policy, and our feeling at 20, 21, 22 years old, and as a fairly liberal group of editorial writers, was that this was a ruse. It had nothing to do with keeping the country strong. It was absurd. If there was a war with the Soviet Union, it would...
...boasts several prominent names on its 11-member advisory board—including James M. Fallows ’70, a former Crimson president who also served as a speech writer to Jimmy Carter, and Steven Brill, a media critic and founder of The American Lawyer...
...said South Korea, it was surely a gaffe. He must have meant North Korea,” said Ashton B. Carter, a former assistant defense secretary who is now the Ford Foundation professor of science and international affairs at Harvard...
...said South Korea, it was surely a gaffe. He must have meant North Korea,” said Ashton B. Carter, a former assistant defense secretary who is now the Ford Foundation professor of science and international affairs at Harvard...