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...betrayal flowed from human rights groups against President Barack Obama last week after it was announced that some Guantanamo Bay terror suspects would continue to be tried by military commissions rather than conventional federal courts. "President Obama is backtracking dangerously on his reform agenda," warned Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth. The head of the American Civil Liberties Union, Anthony Romero, called Obama's announcement "absurd," adding, "These tribunals have no place in our democracy." (Read "Obama Orders Gitmo Closed. Now the Hard Part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Commissions | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...from Italy, the Netherlands and Canada even found that trust levels between citizens of two countries has a significant effect on the investment decisions of venture capital firms, even after accounting for other factors such as geographical distance or transaction costs. "Virtually every commercial transaction," economist and Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow wrote in 1972, "has within itself an element of trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Banks Are Still Missing: Trust | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

Faced with an opponent from his home state of Utah, Kenneth Brewer '11 lured his victim to his chosen killing zone by impersonating as a well-known Harvard alumnus from Utah. Brewer called his victim posing as the alumnus and asked her to meet him at Herrell's Ice Cream, a location this person frequents. Arriving early at Herrell's, Brewer watched from a booth as his victim walked to the back of the shop where she awkwardly introduced herself to some other students who she thought was there to meet the same man. Brewer then crept up behind...

Author: By Elias J. Groll | Title: Assassins Round Up | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...rate of 6.1 percent in the first quarter, a figure worse than what economists had anticipated. Economists and local officials said they were not surprised that the economy of Massachusetts is contracting at a slower rate than the nation’s as a whole. Harvard economics Professor Kenneth S. Rogoff said that the state was less hard hit by the recession due to the prevalence of biotech, healthcare, and education industries, which are more stable and resilient to the business cycle. But he added that there is still a “serious recession here.” City...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Massachusetts Economy Continues To Slide | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

Byran Dai and Kenneth Parreno say they created the band twenty minutes before starting the video and you can tell...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer | Title: Whatever Harvard Is, This Isn't It | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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