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...five months since Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith held a town hall meeting with the FAS community regarding a then-$220 million deficit, proposed solutions to the budgetary quagmire have been scant, breeding confusion among faculty and staff, who hope that this afternoon’s “Discussion with the Dean” will end the dry spell...
During the open forum—which will be held from 3:30 to 5:00 in Science Center B, with an adjacent lecture hall reserved for overflow—Smith will discuss “the positive financial results” from the last fiscal year and take questions from the audience, he wrote in an e-mailed statement sent to faculty and staff last Tuesday...
...detention policies of the previous administration. Already, the administration has announced its attention to close the current prison facilities at Bagram, to have them replaced by a newer, more humane complex, and to inform the International Committee of the Red Cross of the identities of the detainees being held...
...urge President Obama and Pentagon officials to heed the complaints of Foster, Frakt, and other human-rights advocates and expand the rights of those being held at Bagram, lest this Afghan prison come to be seen by the international community as the new Guantanamo...
...does not want its own citizens to be held accountable for crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq? In my point of view, if there were acts of torture, they violated American law because America ratified the U.N Convention Against Torture. If we were part of the ICC, we would be expected to investigate these issues, and if there were a strong case, you would expect prosecution. That's what the U.S. is doing anyway. We respect one of the guiding principles of the ICC that the international court has jurisdiction that is secondary to the national court. Whether we are part...