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...want to understand how a baby-faced freshman Republican Senator from conservative South Carolina has come to be standing against President George W. Bush on the issue of how to interrogate and try terrorism suspects, it helps to know how Lindsey Graham spent part of his summer. A month ago, when most Senators were back home campaigning and fund raising, he was in Kabul, Afghanistan, answering to "Colonel." Wearing desert fatigues, with an M9 pistol strapped to his hip, Graham was conducting a two-day tutorial on the principles of U.S. military law at the Afghan Defense Ministry. He recalls...
...Cambridge schools on the watch list this year are Amigos, Graham and Parks, Kennedy-Longfellow, King, King Open, Morse, Peabody, Tobin, and Cambridge Rindge and Latin. The Baldwin School was on the list last year but was removed because of its progress on closing its math subgroup gaps...
...Graham and Parks joined the watch list this year for not making adequate progress in subgroup English. It showed no change in indicators from last year—then as now, the school failed only in English subgroups...
...Maybe. But just how much danger is the White House really in? It is rare for political leaders to be prosecuted for genuine attempts to protect the public, and few question the motives behind the extreme interrogation methods, even if they strongly disagree with them. More to the point, Graham, Warner and McCain have larded their bill with protections from prosecution for anything but "grave breaches" of the conventions, which they believe should be adequate to protect the White House...
...went into the policy lunch Tuesday, McCain, who was tortured in Vietnam, said "My position will not change" on the extreme methods. And Graham is adamant that the interrogation program is "a thing of the past." One or both of the competing bills may come to the floor of the Senate as early as the end of this week. For now, at least, it appears it will take more than the Iron Lady to compel the Administration opponents to back down...