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...time reveling in the capture of Abu Zubaydah. Its next task is equally urgent: persuading the al-Qaeda COO to talk. Washington will say only that it has stowed Zubaydah in a secure location while tending to his bullet wounds and that he may be transported to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he could become the first al-Qaeda man tried before a military tribunal. But more crucial than Zubaydah's ultimate destination will be any stops he makes along...
...members of the Cuban American Undergraduate Student Association (CAUSA) will distribute medical and hygienic supplies to AIDS patients in Cuba...
...Marie Slaughter and Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C. Yoo ’89 invoked the stipulations of the Geneva Convention—the treaty that dictates the laws of modern warfare—in debating the treatment of Afghan detainees in the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...
Second, many decent and honorable people in Cuba are Communists. They work in government agencies, schools, laboratories, and clinics to improve the lives of their fellow citizens. Often, they succeed in spite of daunting obstacles. Supporting and recognizing good people who do good work does make sense...
Like Ross G. Douthat ’02, I am disturbed that the Graduate School of Design has appointed “an apparatchik from a totalitarian state [Castro’s Cuba]” to be a visiting professor. However, the existence of a double standard that forgives the collaboration of leftists while anathemizing rightists is not at all obvious to me. During the Cold War, scholars who collaborated with right-wing dictatorships were welcome at Harvard. (Tellingly, in 1968, the University granted an honorary doctorate to Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the shahanshah of Iran...