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...President Obama has stated that in place of “military commissions??—controversial bodies that have flouted habeas corpus and other legal principles—he would prefer prosecutions for detainees in U.S. federal courts or in the regular military justice system. But this preference is not a substitute for firm policy: The use of military commissions should be explicitly and permanently forbidden, and, at some point, someone must be held accountable for the unconstitutional use of such kangaroo courts by the Bush administration...
...outside funding for their work. The hugely expensive projects, with budgets often running into the tens of millions of dollars, are entirely financed by the sale of Christo’s preparatory works and work from the 1950s and 1960s.“We don’t do commissions??the process is sometimes more important than the product,” Christo said. The artists’ projects are marked by a peculiar tension between the intense anticipation of a work that may take decades to come to fruition and the subsequent memories of the project?...
This morning, Summers will attend a Tercentenary Theater ceremony at which seven senior cadets from Harvard will receive their commissions??three from the Army, three from the Navy, and one from the Air Force...
College officials contacted yesterday said they were unaware of the commissions?? decision and it was unclear when the change was made and how it was announced...
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