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...disclosure touched off a firestorm of criticism on Quad House e-mail lists this weekend, as residents protested the loss of Hilles and what they perceived to be a unilateral decision on the part of University administrators...
...book seems certain to kick up a political and diplomatic firestorm. The first question everyone will ask is, Is it true? And many will wonder if these matters were addressed in the 28 pages censored from Washington's official report on 9/11. It has long been suggested that Saudi Arabia probably had some kind of secret arrangement to stave off fundamentalists within the kingdom. But this appears to be the first description of a repeated, explicit quid pro quo between bin Laden and a Saudi official. Posner told TIME he got the details of Zubaydah's interrogation and revelations from...
...very private man, completely unused to the star-chamber treatment. I think his mental defenses were so weak that during his testimony he was actually in a state of some confusion." Because he had talked to Gilligan, "he thought he was responsible for this huge political firestorm, and he was thrust into a public world he'd never seen." His suicide, this official believes, was not an expression of shame, but the irrational conclusion of a depressed mind. The untimely death of a good man caught in a war between the government and the BBC - "someone who did more...
Yesterday’s favorable decision in Lawrence v. Texas is certain to spark a firestorm in the political world. This year has seen gay marriage legalized in Belgium and the province of Ontario, and legalization on its way in the rest of Canada. Democratic presidential candidates are furiously courting gay audiences, while conservative groups are grumbling forebodingly that they might look elsewhere in 2004 if President Bush seems too friendly to gays. Already, these groups have been successful in their efforts to force U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft to call off the Justice Department?...
...with exam period nearing, the reaction to the Salient’s issue was slight compared to the firestorm following Pappin’s December letter, ending for now Pappin’s time in the spotlight...