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Eugene Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, believes the "fruits" of torture will be inadmissible in any new trials. As a result, some detainees held for major acts of terrorism, like the 9/11 attacks, may have to be tried for lesser charges. Says Fidell: "We may wind up in the not entirely satisfying prospect of prosecuting people for offenses other than the things most on our minds - like 9/11 and surrounding claims...
...Some experts, prior to the Madoff mega-swindle, were all for lesser regulation. But now they are rethinking this idea. "Registration of these funds might have helped prevent this," says Barry Barbash, a Washington-based securities lawyer with Wilkie Farr & Gallagher. Barbash was the SEC director of investment management from 1993 to 1998, the time the liberalization took place...
...first year, Veritas released a compilation album containing one or two tracks from several prominent Harvard bands and then organized a release party for the album at the Roxy Club in Boston. The following year, they recorded a second compilation CD with Harvard musicians.One of Veritas’ lesser-known contributions was its role in establishing the Queen’s Head Pub. Working with then-fun czar Zachary A. Corker ’04 and Harvard Student Agencies president Daniel L. Rodriguez ’05, Siegel and Zaccagnino organized roughly 10 pub nights in Loker Commons in order...
...without - let's face it - a lot of brainpower, you want a population made up of the fittest individuals you can get. A queen that has the genetic mettle to crank out lots of good eggs that produce lots of good babies doesn't need any competition from other, lesser females setting up a nest nearby. Even the queen herself is not allowed to fool with the gene pool once it's been set. She mates only once in her life and stores all the sperm she'll ever need for the thousands of eggs she'll produce. (See pictures...
...Naipaul. He won the Booker, was knighted, had a great masterpiece published (“Bend In the River”), and won the Nobel Prize (too late, he claimed, for it to make him happy). This year he received the compliment of an accomplished warts-and-all biography (lesser writers receive praise while they’re living, and are damned when they’re dead). But he is miserable. Every time he writes a novel he claims it will be his last—because novels and literature are dead, he says each time...