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...said that given those concerns, prosecuting such cases before military commissions would "evidence blatant disregard for the law and be symptomatic of how military commissions were created to produce convictions at the expense of justice and legality." Which is another reason that the newly reformed commissions may not help close Gitmo anytime soon...
...violence - a school got hit in the cross fire and more than 10 buses were torched - has underscored the challenge of creating a secure environment for hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists in a state where close to 6,000 people are killed each year, more than 1,000 of them by police. The homicide rate in Rio had been falling in recent years, but it is on the rise again. And authorities, acutely aware that last weekend's violence occurred in the Olympic spotlight, didn't sound exactly reassuring.(See five great stadium designs...
...Italy in particular? "It can be extreme," she says of a child's attachment to casa and mamma. This extra-close relationship between Italian mothers and their children is thought to have its origins in the economic and political history of the country. For centuries, the Italian peninsula was a poverty-stricken place with weak governments, meaning that the family was the only source of protection and economic support for people. More recently, psychologists and economists believe the mammone problem is rooted in the economic precariousness of a debt-ridden nation that has been in gradual decline since its post...
Harvard College Library has been forced to slash millions of dollars from its budget this past year, prompting the unit to reduce its workforce by roughly 100 employees and to consider drastic restructuring and consolidation of operations. The administration announced that the Quad Library would close for the coming year to cut costs this spring, and HCL has worked to centralize technical services and transition to greater use of digital materials as well...
Later that afternoon, the Plano, Texas native won another close contest against Cornell’s Jeff Fife, 7-6(13), 6-4. That earned him a chance to play in the quarterfinals—the only Harvard player to make it that...