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...January 2005 during the confirmation hearings of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Reinterpreting the meaning of a U.S. reservation to the Convention Against Torture, Gonzales claimed that the treaty’s prohibition of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” (also known as “CID??) did not apply to non-Americans held by U.S. forces outside the United States. Other governments abuse detainees clandestinely, but the Gonzales testimony made the United States the only government in the world to affirm the power to use CID as a matter of official policy...
...used to sponsor case development, teaching materials, and scholarships. “The focus of the Italian Ministry and of CID will be mostly on developing countries,” Hausmann said. He said the research will not be limited to developing countries, though they traditionally have been the CID??s main focus. Hausmann also said that the fund would help CID??s financial situation, which was already in a “very strong position” before the gift. Through projects with several groups—including the South African government and the World...
Rosenzweig—who left to join a better-funded program on economic growth at Yale—wrote in an e-mail that Summers “has not indicated while I was around any interest in CID??s vision or accomplishments.” Though Summers has declared research on international development a top priority of his administration, Rosenzweig said the president never spoke with him before or after naming him director of the center in August...
...student body—Harvard offers scant resources for the study of developing countries as it is. Outside the CID these are dispersed over dozens of departments and academic centers, such that students interested in majoring in the field must petition for a special concentration. Lacking the CID??s crucial cluster of resources, undergraduates would have virtually no incentive to study development. Summers has indicated that should he proceed with a shutdown, students would not lose these programs. Yet even assuming the ideal scenario—that all the CID??s tasks were to seamlessly transfer...
Despite the uncertainty surrounding CID??s future, Rogoff said that “the field of development is in extremely good shape at Harvard...