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Prominent civil rights attorney and Harvard Law School grad Harvey A. Silverglate hosted a dinner discussion in Dunster last night on free speech and student rights in the age of the war on terror, while emphasizing reform of Harvard’s Administrative Board...
Pity America's poor civil libertarians. In recent weeks, the papers have been full of stories about the warehousing of information on Americans by the National Security Agency, the interception of financial information by the CIA, the stripping of authority from a civilian intelligence oversight board by the White House, and the compilation of suspicious activity reports from banks by the Treasury Department. On Thursday, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine released a report documenting continuing misuse of Patriot Act powers by the FBI. And to judge from the reaction in the country, nobody cares...
...potentially one of the most important East Asia has seen in recent memory. A Ma victory could usher in a sea change in the tense relationship between China and Taiwan. In 1949 Mao Zedong's communists chased Chiang Kai-shek's KMT from the mainland after a brutal civil war, and ever since the two have glared icily at each other across the narrow but heavily armed strait that separates them. Beijing considers Taiwan to be no more than a wayward province destined to be reunified under communist rule. The disagreement has on occasion inched close to war and remains...
...reporter and China watcher John Roderick was there. For months, he shared the cave Mao Zedong and other rebels used as headquarters after the Japanese flattened the city of Yan'an, the end point of the communists' Long March. Roderick went on to cover the country from its ensuing civil war through the economic reforms of the 1980s, and in 1979 reopened the AP bureau in Beijing. "Keep learning," he advised colleagues. "If you ever think you understand China completely, it's time to go home." Roderick...
...kidnapping comes after the December killing of four French tourists in Mauritania in what intelligence officials believe was a bungled abduction attempt. In September an AQIM plot to seize two French nationals in Algiers was thwarted by security services, and the same month, a group of Italian civil engineers were captured but ultimately released in northern Mali. The growing risk of abduction or terrorist violence by jihadists in the region ultimately caused the organizers of the annual Dakar Rally to cancel the cross-desert off-road car race for the first time since was launched...