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Obama may opt to release dozens of others and insist that the remaining handful of high-profile cases be heard in either federal or military courts in the U.S. Already dozens of Guantnamo cases are moving through the federal court system following a pivotal Supreme Court ruling in June, and the Bush Administration is grappling with two separate rulings from federal judges ordering the release of 22 detainees...
...first living organism whose genes were decoded. In 1997, cloning made stop-the-presses headlines when embryologist Ian Wilmut announced that he had cloned a sheep. Venter grabbed the spotlight again in 2003 when his team became one of two to sequence the human genome. A living woolly mammoth either will or won't ensue, but if cloning history is any guide, don't bet against will...
...system works, the idea that President Faust would have just said ‘no’ based solely on the things that are on the record, which are very positive, is inconceivable,” Frankel said. “It has to be that either some members of the ad-hoc committee or some letters—all of which are always totally confidential—were for some reason less positive.” —Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...
...Senate failed to pass a massive immigration reform act that included a provision allowing public colleges to offer in-state tuition rates to undocumented immigrants. If passed, the bill would have also opened a path to citizenship for illegal aliens who entered the country as children and who either complete two years of higher education or serve in the military. Both provisions were also part of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, a law sponsored by Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin which failed last October. The legislation is expected to be introduced in similar form...
...also recently published its annual “National Leadership Index,” which is compiled by HKS Professor Todd L. Pittinsky from public opinion surveys. The results this year revealed the most negative attitudes since the project began in 2005. Respondents rated their confidence level either the same or lower in every one of the 13 leadership sectors, which range from military to education to business. Gergen said the Leadership Index and the Best Leaders profile fit well together. “The theory behind this project is that America is facing a leadership shortage...