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Getting to that point has recently become even harder. The number of applicants this year is the highest since 2004, while class size has remained roughly constant at around 900 students...
...Rather, the new reports clarify the false pretenses under which the administration has presented the issue: They reveal the chain of complicity for specific abuses leads very directly to the highest levels of government. This should come as little shock by now, since a recurring theme of the current administration’s abuses has been the irresponsible expansion of centralized executive power—a propensity for legalistic avoidance of checks and balances that often amounts to changing the rules of the game...
...Instead of the “few bad apples” blamed when the prisoner abuse first came to light over the Abu Graib incidents, it is clear that those highest in the level of command sanctioned specific methods of prisoner abuse. While the meetings referenced in the ABC report revolved around interrogation at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, according to the Vanity Fair piece, “[An] August 2006 report of the Pentagon’s inspector general concluded unequivocally that techniques from Guantánamo had indeed found their way to Iraq...
...Endurance is the highest art,” The Stable Boy said, his voice husky from exertion. “You told me you wanted to learn how to ride...
...position to play our way into a third seed,” Fish said. Each draw in the tennis tournament has four seeds, and a No. 3 seed is likely to play a team ranked No. 17-32, rather than a team in the very highest echelons of collegiate tennis.“If you go in No. 4 you may be in for a short trip,” Fish said.The Ivy League championship is this team’s first in four years, meaning that no current Harvard player has played on an championship team...