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Just a day after Hicks was convicted, a case was decided that grew out of American treatment of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq. U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan ruled that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld can't be sued by nine freed prisoners who say they were tortured in U.S. custody. Hogan cited the principle of immunity for government officials. But in his ruling, he also summed up his feeling about the abuses the ex-prisoners claimed: "This is a lamentable case...
...glorious successes and humiliating defeats: American frigates beat British ships; Detroit fell to the enemy. The crisis came in 1814, when Napoleon's defeat freed British resources for a final push in the U.S. The British tried, and failed, to take Lake Champlain in upstate New York. They burned Washington but were stopped outside Baltimore (a battle that inspired The Star-Spangled Banner), and they prepared to attack New Orleans...
...have a schedule in place to confer with Faust.Knowles said he looks forward to the forthcoming appointment of a “younger and more vigorous dean.”The 10 search committee members are Engell, Coolidge Professor of History David Blackbourn, Professor of Astronomy Alyssa A. Goodman, Freed Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88, Physics Department Chair John E. Huth, Environmental Science and Public Policy Chair James J. McCarthy, Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, Smith Professor of Computer Science Margo I. Seltzer, Berkman Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke, and Professor...
...Gates' appointment seems to have freed up these kinds of logjams. Without Rumsfeld's baggage or background, Gates - whom some in the Pentagon are calling the "anti-Rumsfeld" - is free to disagree with policies and personnel that he inherited. "Gates seems to want to hold people accountable," says Lawrence Korb, Pentagon manpower chief during the Reagan administration. "Rumsfeld threatened a lot of people, but as far as we know never got rid of anybody for any mistakes...
...some Vietnam-era antiwar protesters - few - who disparaged the troops along with the war. (A lively debate continues about whether any returning American soldiers were actually spat upon.) Vietnam also saw the first appearance of the ridiculous argument that we couldn't stop the war until our POWs were freed - as if stopping the war wasn't the quickest way to free them. This, too, fed a myth that opposition to a war was somehow a betrayal of the soldiers. Ultimately, in the case of Vietnam, the antiwar movement included a majority of the country, and it saved the lives...