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...August 1997 the CIA had identified a bin Laden cell operating in Nairobi. The agency believed it was headed by Wadih el Hage, a Lebanese who held American citizenship and who, according to court documents, once served as bin Laden's personal secretary. Washington sent a secret request to Kenyan authorities in Nairobi: roust Wadih el Hage. For several weeks Kenyan police, sometimes accompanied by visiting FBI agents, began paying visits to el Hage's Nairobi home, searching its rooms, confiscating computer disks and darkly warning him that he'd face more hassling if he remained in the country...
Morality transcends narrow religious differences because morality, along with citizenship, is one of the few things that binds us all together. We can discuss a public official's private behavior and decide whether it is immoral or not, but the discussion has to take place. Morality certainly has a place in public discourse; simply to ignore private behavior and to say that it is personal, and thus beyond reproach, is destructive and undemocratic. Sujit Raman '00 is a history concentrator in Mather House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...which is constitutional is not necessarily desirable. The National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, which met in 1973, concluded that taking away the citizenship rights of offenders, including their right to vote, would inhibit the criminal justice system's efforts to reform them. "If correction is to reintegrate an offender into free society, the offender must retain all attributes of citizenship. It stated, "Mandatory denials of that participation serve no legitimate public interest...
...Testament call for an-eye-for-an-eye retribution; a system in which the murderer suffers the same penalty as the shoplifter cannot be just. If used at all, disenfranchisement should at least be restricted to time spent in prison, so that ex-offenders would be restored to full citizenship once their debt to society is paid...
...consider the conspicuous lack of accommodation of Palestinian refugees (64 percent of the total Palestinian population) or Palestinians living in Israel in both the Oslo Accords and the Wye Memorandum. Many Palestinians living in other places in the Arab world are still living as refugees in camps, deprived of citizenship and its benefits, often disproportionately impoverished. In Lebanon, where Palestinians have not been incorporated into the state because their large numbers are seen as a threat to the delicate balance of religious groups, Palestinians from the Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp, which holds 350,000 Palestinians, have protested...