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In some respects, this is an academic debate. The distinction between POWs and "unlawful combatants" doesn't make any difference in the mode of interrogation or in choosing military trials, closing courtrooms or considering hearsay evidence. The Geneva Convention permits each of these, even for POWs. But pretending that the...
As Democrats across Massachusetts —including a contingent of Harvard students—turned out Saturday to pick delegates to their party’s late-May state convention, latecomer gubernatorial candidate Robert Reich won unexpectedly strong support in Cambridge.
State Treasurer Shannon O’Brien follows close behind, but both have to compete for convention delegates with Reich, former Democratic National Committee Chair Steve Grossman and former state Representative Warren E. Tolman.
Each candidate must have the support of 15 percent of the nearly 750 delegates at the state convention in order to even appear on the ballot in next fall’s Democratic primary.
Lewis is one of five Harvard students who will attend the state party convention in Worcester this summer as alternates.