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...candidates criss-crossed each other all day, but spoke only briefly. They smiled and sang along with the marchers along the path. While the original march in 1965 was met midway on the bridge by law enforcement, who beat the participants, today, all stopped for prayer at the site before crossing the bridge. Selma police estimated a crowd of 10,000 turned out to view and participate in the march...
...Grey says he then embarked on basic "shoe-leather reporting," criss-crossing between Washington, the Middle East, Europe and Pakistan over the next few years. Ultimately he detailed 89 renditions involving 87 prisoners, several of whom he says had not previously been documented. But Grey says he believes "hundreds" of others have not been identifed. In interviews, former CIA agents who had worked in the renditions program told Grey the numbers of renditions were "in the low hundreds." Goss told the Senate Intelligence Committee in February last year that with rendered prisoners, "once out of our control, there is only...
...frontier, coming in some places to within two hundred yards of the fence. No Israeli soldiers were to be seen even though the border road technically lies behind the Israeli army's frontline in some places. Still, the Israeli military activity was manifest in the numerous tank tracks that criss-cross the border road and run through fields of bright green tobacco plants. The border road, a potholed single-lane route even in normal times, is pockmarked from exploding artillery rounds, the asphalt churned by caterpillar tracks...
...southern hinterland beyond Tyre has become a killing zone. Here the dead lie under the rubble of houses destroyed in air strikes and the wounded die in the streets for lack of medical attention. Almost all the roads that criss-cross the hills and valleys of the south have been heavily cratered from multiple air strikes, making them impassable. Even United Nations peacekeepers with their armored personnel carriers have abandoned the effort to resupply or evacuate residents of southern villages because of the conditions of the roads and the Israeli shelling and air strikes. "We are in close contact with...
...recent memory.“[The College] shouldn’t need the president of the University...to get a few million dollars in order to make necessary investments, like Loker,” Summers told a group of students in May.But although top College administrators have been criss-crossing the country raising money for the new fund, questions have emerged over its permanence and whether it can take the place of a benevolent Office of the President.BALANCING THE BOOKSThe Harvard College Fund (HCF), the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ main source for alumni donations, has traditionally allowed...