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...affected by the ruling will be the 11 North African Muslims detained by Britain, some for up to three years, mostly at a maximum security facility in south London. The government now must either charge the prisoners—which will require sensitive information to be aired in open court??or release them. The importance of the ruling, however, goes well beyond the fates of these 11 suspects: It constitutes a substantial piece of international legal precedent on the question of indefinite detainment for suspected terrorist links, one that ought to have extraordinary consequences...
Competing for the first time in BU’s new tennis center, Harvard had to deal with playing on a court that resembled the track running around it. But though the court??s material was significantly different from that in the Murr Center, the Crimson was able to make the necessary adjustments without too much difficulty...
Fried said the Court??s 1987 ruling in South Dakota v. Dole, which held that the federal government could reduce highway funding to states that refused to impose a 21-year-old minimum drinking age, suggested that Congress could not impose unduly coercive penalties for noncompliance...
Yang, who was banned from China after he participated in the 1989 Tianamen Square demonstrations, was arrested in April 2002 on charges of espionage and illegal entry to China. Last May, he received a five-year prison sentence but chose not to appeal the Chinese court??s decision...
...That argument is completely without merit and was bound to convince none of the Court??s nine justices....Claims that giving the state judiciary this sort of power violates some separation-of-powers norm binding on the states are entirely frivolous,” Tribe wrote in an e-mail. Tribe filed an amicus brief in January urging the SJC to support same-sex marriages...