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...Indeed, counterfeiting another's creativity is anathema to any honest painter or writer. With his previous novel, Peter Carey took that idea and gave it a macabre twist. In My Life as a Fake, he reimagined Australia's infamous Ern Malley affair - the 1944 literary hoax played by antimodernists Harold Stewart and James McAuley, who posed as a dead working-class poetic "genius" - by bringing a fabricated identity to life to haunt its creator. The novel's sprawling narrative was as gin-soaked and overripe as its Kuala Lumpur setting, but Carey's theme was sobering: how can we test...
...bottom-line goal was not to lose any seats," says Charles Schumer, the New York Senator who heads the committee. "Now, if things fall in line, we might even pick up the Senate." Republicans could even lose the Tennessee seat of retiring majority leader Bill Frist to Representative Harold Ford, a Democrat...
...president can order it done anyway. “Executive officials can escape prosecution if they are carrying out the president’s orders as commander in chief,” Bybee writes, invoking the infamous defense the United States had rejected for Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. Harold H. Koh ’75, a dean and professor of international law at Yale, described the Bybee memo to the Senate Judiciary Committee as “the most clearly erroneous legal opinion I have ever read,” noting that it so “grossly overreads...
...justified” and that international covenants may be an unconstitutional violation of the president’s authority. Many legal experts have attacked the memo, and the Bush administration even took the drastic step of formally disavowing it in June 2004. Yale Law School Dean Harold H. Koh ’75, an expert on international law, called the memo “perhaps the most clearly erroneous legal opinion I have ever read” and said that it could “be used to justify the atrocities at Abu Ghraib,” in testimony before...
...contributors later this month. Though submissions to the Journal, like most law reviews, are usually anonymous, submissions to the Journal’s Symposium Edition each March are not. Following the revelation of Camara’s use of racist slurs during his time at HLS, Yale Law Dean Harold H. Koh ’75 sent an e-mail to the school’s student body in February in which he wrote that though the Journal, which is not formally affiliated with the law school, “is entitled to make this decision,” Camara?...