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...Australian David Hicks, 31, was recently handed a nine-month sentence by a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, and expects to be free by New Year's Eve after five years in legal limbo at the U.S. detention facility. Meanwhile, the so-called "American Taliban," John Walker Lindh, languishes in a super-max prison in Colorado, serving a 20-year term. The stark comparison between their punishments is the basis of a petition sent this week by Lindh's lawyers to President Bush and the Justice Department, calling for his sentence to be commuted. "This is a simple...
...President Bush is not expected to look favorably on Lindh's latest plea for leniency - his third since striking a deal in 2002 with the Justice Department in which he agreed to plead guilty to serving as an armed member of the Taliban in exchange for avoiding a variety of other terrorism charges that had also been lodged against...
...already spoken in front of the United Nations, appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and written an article for the New York Times Magazine, and published a book on his experiences. His appearance filled all the seats in the Littauer building. Power, who is the Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, and Jacqueline Bhabha, the Executive Director of Harvard’s Committee on Human Rights Studies, asked Beah about how he thought the availability of light arms encouraged the use of child soldiers. Beah captured the attention of his audience not only with...
...Eggers said. “I just feel like Edward P. Jones is underappreciated and under-read, so I felt that I would do what I could to explain his work and bring it to new people.”At Monday’s talk, Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy Samantha Power, who moderated the discussion for the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, suggested that Eggers’ work as a writer in the service of humanitarian goals has overtaken his role as a writer. In addition to writing “What...
Myers is the second Kennedy School affiliate to work for Obama, a 1991 Harvard Law School graduate. Samantha Power, Lindh professor of practice of global leadership and public policy, took a leave of absence in July 2005 to serve as Obama’s foreign policy adviser...