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...wake of the revelations about the possible immunity offer, which were first reported Monday by the Associated Press, Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that is investigating Blackwater, fired off a letter Tuesday to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice raising a series of issues. As Waxman puts it: "This rash grant of immunity was an egregious misjudgment. It raises serious questions about who conferred the immunity, who approved it at the State Department, and what their motives were." Waxman requests written responses to his queries by no later than noon on Friday, November...
...symbol will constitute a felony. Though New York legislators believe this measure is a necessary response to recent incidents across the state, we find the measure an inherently bad idea. To be sure, the recent rash of harassing noose imagery in New York is troubling—from the letter sent to a black high school teacher in Brooklyn, to the hanging of a noose on a black professor’s door at Teachers College at Columbia University, to its display outside a lower Manhattan post office, and throughout Long Island. Nevertheless, banning an image—however reprehensible?...
...Artist Katherine M. Bringsjord ’09 referred to her piece as a “psychological self-portrait.” Mounted next to a depiction of herself—which shows Bringsjord posed in front of a refrigerator, milk bottle in hand—is a letter explaining her work. “This piece was about me learning to control the way people view me,” the letter reads. Andres Castro Samayoa ’10, an intern at the Women’s Center whose art is featured in the show and, said...
...VIII after he decided to marry the American divorcé Wallis Simpson. However, the last known blackmail case involving a member of the royal family was successfully hushed up for many years. In 1891, the Duke of Clarence, son to King Edward VII, paid £ 200 to secure indiscreet letters he had sent to a prostitute. The case came to light only five years ago when a letter to his lawyer was sold at auction...
CLARIFICATION: The Oct. 26, 2007 news article "Profs Protest Tenure Interference" did not fully explain the circumstances surrounding Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz's letter criticizing political scientist Norman G. Finkelstein's academic work. Dershowitz's criticisms of Finkelstein were sent to professors at DePaul University in response to a request from a department at the university; the letter was not unsolicited...