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That would be a start. Obama shouldn't stop at declassifying the memos. He needs to launch a full-scale investigation into our intelligence-gathering practices over the past eight years, because once you get past the details of what was made legal to fight the war on terrorism, there's an even starker realization: we tortured people for almost no verifiable information...
...once snubbed an invitation to join Britain's House of Lords. Jack Jones, 96, preferred to make his mark by rising through the ranks of the Transport and General Workers' Union, where he became a national figure in the U.K. through his fight for labor rights...
...finally make that admission, decades in which the country's powerful and violent drug cartels have been allowed to terrorize far too many neighborhoods in too many cities like Juárez. Summoning his army to fill in for unreliable cops, Mexican President Felipe Calderón has brought the fight to the gangs, but their furious backlash has left more than 7,000 Mexicans murdered since the start of last year - almost 2,000 in Juárez alone. Still, through the fog of the drug war, especially on the bloodied border, it has become clearer to see what needs...
...Dartmouth fans for showing that they actually care deeply about Ivy League sports. Or at least about dissing Harvard. Either way, this intrepid FlyBy reporter is headed up to Hanover for the weekend series to see Big Green fans at their belligerent finest, when the two schools fight it out for real on the diamond. Stay tuned for a sneak peek into the world of true Ivy sports fanatics...
...news dystopia. As impressive a start as Obama has had, these 100 days could come to seem an overambitious and naive presage of disaster if the President's financial policies are inadequate to meet the crisis; his budget proposals are gutted by Congress; and his attempts to leave Iraq, fight in Afghanistan and negotiate with the Iranians turn sour. "Those of us who are older and more scarred have to be skeptical about all that Obama is trying to do," says William Galston, a Clinton White House policy adviser. "If he's right, our traditional notion of the limits...