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...Holder faces huge challenges and a ticking clock as the nation's top lawyer. The most urgent is how to implement President Barack Obama's decision to close the brig at Guantánamo in a year and try some 250 alleged terrorists who have been kept there indefinitely. Some of their cases are so sensitive that presenting evidence in open court could compromise national security. As details of Bush-era practices on rendition, torture and wiretapping become known, Holder will have to rewrite some of the most secret rules of engagement used by the U.S. against al-Qaeda while balancing...
...about the pace of its Allston expansion—specifically the future of the much-anticipated science complex—was met by community frustration at last night’s Allston-Brighton neighborhood task force meeting.Residents demanded that Harvard follow through on its promise of community benefits and implement them quickly, regardless of possible changes to the Institutional Master Plan that lays out the University’s proposals for expansion. Chief University Planner Kathy A. Spiegelman said that the troubled economic climate is forcing the University to analyze all capital projects, and that it is unlikely that...
...applicants view these rankings nationwide. Moreover, Harvard’s position as one of the nation’s preeminent universities would inspire other schools to follow suit, in the same way that Harvard’s financial aid initiative last year inspired Yale and Stanford, among others, to implement similar policies. The world of higher education is so diverse that ranking schools according to a standardized system fails to provide an accurate representation of many schools. These rankings have become increasingly important in many applicants’ decisions, and likely lead to students to make decisions that...
...Brant, however, ruled that while selling books is constitutionally protected, the city reserves the right to implement time, place, and manner restrictions, and identified a 50-cent peddler’s permit that would allow Kibler to continue his business. According to O’Brien, Kibler soon left the bookstand...
...money to buy up troubled assets. But shortly after the bank rescue fund passed Congress, a flood of economists came out against Paulson's plan. Instead, most policy experts advocated a plan to inject capital into the banks by buying preferred shares. The latter strategy would be quicker to implement and would do a better job of stimulating lending. Britain was instituting a similar plan, and it was already gaining praise. So Paulson balked, and by late October the capital-purchase plan was in place. The original TARP was dead in the water. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...