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...sitting in a courtoom with 249 other wannabe Americans, waiting to be declared an American, to put my hand in the air and say I am cured of my love for my pathetic excuse of a former nation and love America best of all. (For me, it's like saying that you have to stop loving your parents once you get married. Heaven forfend that you could love two countries, even if one just looks like the other but with fewer rivers and more wombats.) Someone's got to be the 300 millionth American...
...policing this ceremony are looking at me kind of special. (And not just because I keep pretending to cough as I sneak Mentos candies into my mouth. There's no eating while you're becoming an American. They say it's because of the mess it leaves in the courtoom, but I think it might be Homeland Security's small way of combating the obesity epidemic.) There's an air of apprehension about the place, as if when a name is called, suddenly balloons are going to drop from the ceiling, champagne will magically appear and some avuncular...
...Security Michael Chertoff ’75 returned to his alma mater last night to defend the Bush administration’s anti-terrorist tactics—including its domestic wiretapping program—in a speech before a packed audience at Harvard Law School’s Ames Courtoom...
...minute screening of Deep Throat in early May set the judicial parts into their appointed, Newtonian motion--the actors knew their lines already, without consulting a script, and the ending was, well, predictable. One way to understand this courtoom drama is to look at the players...
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