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CHARGED. Steven Jordan, 50, U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who ran the interrogation center at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; with 12 counts of military violations, including abuse of detainees, making false official statements, dereliction of duty and interfering with investigators; in Washington. Jordan is the highest-ranking person to be charged in the two-year-old prison scandal, for which several low-ranking soldiers have been convicted...
...play in providing scientific advice to the government but explained that his day-to-day commitments would remain the same. This year’s election brings the total number of active Academy members to 2,013. “Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in American science and engineering,” said NAS President Ralph J. Cicerone in a press release. NAS elects as many as 72 new members, as well as 18 foreign associates, annually...
...verbatim in the 1974 “Justices and Presidents” by Henry J. Abraham. In a statement at the time, Tribe said, “I have immediately written an apology to Professor Abraham, whom I—like so many others—hold in the highest regard...
Shinagel recommended that the phrase “extention studies” be removed from the degrees of future Extension School graduates at yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty Council—the highest governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Tuesday that he has asked for a waiver of clean air rules and stopped pumping up the emergency oil reserve to try to help push down the price. He also said a $2 billion tax break for the nation's oil companies, which have seen some of the highest profit margins on record, should be repealed. It was a first step that many rejected as little more than election year politics, coming at the same time that such lawmakers as Illinois Democratic Senator Barack Obama are calling for investigations into perceived price gouging...