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...McCarthy ’93, a lecturer in the History and Literature department and the Kennedy School of Government, and a resident tutor in Quincy House, has a much more personal reason called him back to Cambridge. While pursuing a PhD at Columbia University in summer 1998, McCarthy became legal guardian of Malcolm Green, a boy he had mentored through the Big Brother program as an undergraduate. McCarthy essentially “adopted and raised him through high school,” while simultaneously writing his dissertation and teaching in Hist & Lit—a job, he notes...
...indicate that while the tailgate will still be entirely keg-free, HoCos will be allowed to serve beer and wine to students who are over 21 years old, a change from the last Game at Harvard, when alcohol could only be purchased in designated spaces. Even this allowance of legal alcohol consumption, some HoCo chairs said, may not substantially affect students’ drinking habits. “It’s kind of silly, I think a lot of beer balls instead of beer kegs doesn’t make a lot of sense since they?...
...Senate Judiciary Committee inquiry is just one of many legal challenges the Bush White House is facing during its final days in office. The Administration's terrorism policies and legal actions are also being examined with skeptical eyes in federal courts, on Capitol Hill and in ethics offices of the Justice Department itself. Many civil rights activists are hoping that more challenges will follow once President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January. (See pictures of how Obama's election energized the heart of the civil rights movement...
Even with President Bush still in office, at least three internal government probes examining legal decisions by the White House are unfolding. Since December 2007, federal prosecutors, FBI agents and the internal watchdog office at the CIA have been investigating whether any laws were broken in 2005, when the CIA destroyed videotapes showing harsh interrogations of detainees. Separately, the Justice Department's internal Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating whether the department's legal approval of waterboarding and other so-called enhanced interrogation methods was appropriate. The same office is conducting a similar investigation into legal decisions made by Bush...
...Other legal proceedings against the Bush Administration are starting up. A federal judge in Washington this month ordered the White House to turn over a series of legal memos written to justify electronic eavesdropping without a warrant in a case brought against the Administration by the American Civil Liberties Union and other rights groups. According to the ruling, the judge will review the memos to determine whether any information can be released publicly under the Freedom of Information Act, despite objections from the Justice Department, which is citing attorney-client privilege and national security concerns for refusing to divulge...