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Ekperi, who was of Nigerian descent, is survived by her parents and an older sister, Macey said...
Ekperi, who was of Nigerian descent, is survived by her parents and an older sister, Macey said...
...assert that their constitutional responsibility for national security trumps any issue of civil liberties. Often that has meant trampling on them. From John Adams' Sedition Act to Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus to Woodrow Wilson's draconian Espionage Act to F.D.R.'s internment of American citizens of Japanese descent, Presidents have constitutionally overreached. Last week's Supreme Court decision in the Hamdan case suggested that Bush had too--although his actions hardly compare with the examples above...
...Number of those deans and vice presidents who are of black, Hispanic, Asian, or Native American descent...
...phone interview, recalling these details from his hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.The man was 50-year-old Australian mountaineer Lincoln Hall. He was suffering from High Altitude Cerebral Edema caused by low levels of oxygen. Hall had summited the day before, but had started acting delusional on the descent. Hall’s Tibetan guides tried for nine hours to bring him down the mountain, but gave up when he became too disoriented and resistant to their efforts. The guides left him at 8700 meters (28,543 feet) at 7:20 p.m. that evening when he became still...