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Khan is one of very few Guantanamo prisoners whose claim to U.S. residency has been legally established. He has close relatives in the Baltimore area who are American citizens; Khan's lawyers have appealed to members of Congress on his behalf, including Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, who sits on the Intelligence Committee. After years of isolation in prison, Khan was recently allowed to mix with at least one other prisoner at Guantanamo, Abu Zubaydah, a top alleged terrorist who, Hayden has said, was one of those prisoners to be waterboarded...
...Circle A 2001 grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts led to the creation of CIRCLE (The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement). Based at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, the center conducts research on the civic and political engagement of Americans between the ages of 15 and 25. One of the group's main areas of study is the way young voters are using online tools to connect with one another, including VotePoke.org...
...Black Youth Vote BYV!, the youth division of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, focuses on voter registration for African Americans in seven states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan and Texas. According to the group's statistics, nearly 50% of the black American electorate is made up of men and women under...
...With melted snow dripping into the conference hall, decorated in burlap sacking to evoke the inside of a bedouin tent, the setting could hardly have born less resemblence to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, scene of the U.S. sponsored Middle East peace conference last November. That, of course, was the point...
...students are a big attraction for me to come and talk and learn from them.” Yepsen will be joined by, among others, Connie A. Morella, a former U.S. ambassador to the 30-country Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and a longtime Republican representative of Maryland in the U.S. Congress. Drawing from her experience in American politics, Morella will head a study group on the past, present, and future of political moderates in Congress. She was one of six Republicans who voted against authorizing military action against Iraq in 2003 and describes herself...