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...friend of three of the Sept. 11 hijackers; of being an accessory to murder in the 2001 attacks, overturning a 2004 decision clearing him due to lack of evidence; by a German appeals court; in Karlsruhe. The presiding judge said the fact that el-Motassadeq did not know the exact timing or targets of the attack was "irrelevant" because he knew of a plot to hijack airliners. El-Motassadeq, at liberty in Hamburg awaiting the verdict, faces up to 15 years in prison...
...spent the past four years quietly making himself as useful as possible to his colleagues. He lent his old strengths as a backroom dealmaker and a master of arcane Senate rules to sometimes thankless tasks. He not only won back allies that way, but he also sharpened the exact skills that his party will need for the next two years, when its main goal will be to stop Democratic bills from seeing the light of day, let alone the President's desk. As the whip--a position named after the switch-wielding valet at fox hunts who keeps the hounds...
...appears. The Environmental Action Committee (EAC) has published a position paper outlining a number of simple ways to achieve these reductions: decreasing energy demand, increasing efficiency in laboratories, and offsetting emissions with renewable energy purchases. Many of these initiatives will pay for themselves in the long run. Although the exact upfront costs are unclear at present, the purpose of the referendum is to send a message to the administration that students care so passionately about climate change that they believe Harvard should commit to reduction even without accurate cost estimates...
...zones. Those were also sold out this year, which we did not have two years ago,” she said. The only Game tickets not yet sold out are those reserved for Yale students, according to Yale director of ticket operations Nancy Fryer. Though unable to provide exact figures, Fryer said that Yale student ticket sales, which began on Monday and continue through today, have been about the same as two years ago. Harvard students expressed frustration at the unavailability of tickets. Cleo D. Leung ’08 had to spam several open lists to get a ticket...
...presence on Sunday TV talk shows or Larry King Live is not,” Lewis wrote in his letter.But the committee didn’t pay much attention. It selected Lawrence H. Summers, a Clinton treasury secretary familiar with the Sunday television circuit.So this fall, Lewis dispatched the exact same letter, hoping that the committee now charged with replacing Summers might be more receptive to advice from professors.He had reason to hope so. With wounds still raw from the battle that ended Summers’ presidency, the famously secretive search committee is now going...