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...memo said that the torture of al Qaeda terrorists held abroad “may be justified” and that international covenants may be an unconstitutional violation of the president’s authority. Many legal experts have attacked the memo, and the Bush administration even took the drastic step of formally disavowing it in June 2004. Yale Law School Dean Harold H. Koh ’75, an expert on international law, called the memo “perhaps the most clearly erroneous legal opinion I have ever read” and said that it could...
...improve your health. Although a 2002 research article published in New Scientist suggested that eating and fasting elicit different immune responses that would tackle different types of pathogens (bacteria v. virus), the results were inconclusive. Harvey can’t think of any studies that have shown that drastic changes in eating habits will shorten the duration or ease the symptoms of a cold or fever...
...unclear how Shi'ite and Sunni parties will respond to the ambassador's invitation, but the Kurds - Washington's oldest allies in Iraq - are likely to be amenable. "All the doors to a political solution are closed," an influential Kurdish leader told TIME. "This may just be the drastic step necessary to open them up again...
When dreary news seems to cover Cambridge in a palpable gloom, our New Haven brethren put the shade into perspective with drastic events of their...
...management landscape of a successful, large university like Harvard. “Universities,” she wrote, “function adequately enough when everyone is left to their own devices. Incompetent management seems not to matter, the ship goes on sailing. The trouble comes when drastic change is needed.” By her reckoning, Summers’ attempts at any change put him in the Faculty’s sights...