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...first year at Harvard, Altmaier spent anywhere from 20 to 30 hours a week with basketball. Practices even kept her from going home to California during vacations. But as the team fought its way out of a 1-10 start to the season to win an Ivy League title and a spot in the March Madness tournament, she found that it was worth...
...something that’s a major student concern,” she added. “The fact that there hasn’t been open dialogue so far has been problematic.” Holoshitz said she did not think anything in the minutes deserved to be kept secret...
...other countries and would have implemented others with nations like Colombia had congressional Democrats let him. Expansions of free trade offer a potential first step to economic recovery: After all, in the beginning throes of the crisis in 2007, it was double-digit annualized export growth that kept GDP growing despite lagging consumption and investment...
...maximum allowable period of sleep deprivation allowed under the CIA interrogation program was 264 hours, though no detainee was deprived of sleep for more than 180 hours, or 7½ days. Only three detainees had been subjected to sleep deprivation for more than 96 hours. The detainees were kept awake by being forced to stand, sit or recline in uncomfortable positions, with shackled limbs. At the same time, detainees could undergo stressful treatments, including significant dietary restrictions and violence, like waterboarding and walling. (Read "Waterboarding: A Mental and Physical Trauma...
...court. To everyone's surprise, Cuban President Raul Castro - who is making a serious push to have his country readmitted to hemispheric groups like the Organization of Americans States - responded by saying he was "willing to talk" about matters like the scores of jailed dissidents in Cuba. Obama kept the ball rolling, suggesting in Port of Spain that the U.S. "seeks a new beginning with Cuba" in a speech that Latin presidents like Argentina's Cristina Fernández de Kirchner called a big step toward "re-stabilizing" U.S.-Latin American relations...