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...Some students were disappointed about the loss of individual mailboxes that were previously located in Town Hall, a convenience that let them receive course materials such as problem sets and homework...

Author: By Niha S Jain, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HKS Social Space Cut Draws Concern | 8/30/2009 | See Source »

...report released Monday there are references to the considerable doubt inside the CIA about interrogating prisoners of war. Although CIA management apparently never raised those doubts with its political bosses, the rank and file understood how little they themselves knew about interrogation. Few had ever conducted an interrogation, let alone an interrogation employing physical coercion. They also worried about the legal guidance coming out of the Department of Justice. (Read Five Revelations from the CIA Report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CIA and Interrogations: A Bad Fit from the Start | 8/28/2009 | See Source »

...factor. When a mother can't follow the proceedings, "she looks unresponsive, and that conveys to a judge a lack of interest in the child, which is clearly not the case," she says. She also argues it's hard enough for any adult to learn a new language, "let alone when you're a migrant working long hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Mother Lose Her Child Because She Doesn't Speak English? | 8/27/2009 | See Source »

...picked himself up from the canvas, even when he had knocked himself down - maybe especially when he had knocked himself down. It was his fate to prove that the Kennedys weren't storybook princes conjured to life, and his triumph lies in the fact that he didn't let the myth stop him. His sister Eunice, who died two weeks before Ted (only Jean survives from the nine Kennedy children), did something similar with her great creation, the Special Olympics. Her father had tried to erase the blemish of a handicapped daughter; this younger Kennedy chose instead to reveal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ted Kennedy: Bringing the Myth Down to Earth | 8/27/2009 | See Source »

...preparing strikes on Spain from France's Basque country. But when Algerian jihadists unleashed terror attacks in France in 1995, Paris was awakened to the importance of cross-border cooperation in battling extremists. It kicked its then-nascent anti-ETA efforts with Spain into high gear - and hasn't let up since. (Read "The Fall of Spain's Most Wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basque Terror Group Weaker But Still a Threat | 8/27/2009 | See Source »

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