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...main screening site for those captured by Americans and their allies during initial fighting in Afghanistan. At least two detainees died there in December 2002 after being beaten by U.S. troops. While conditions are said to have improved since then, hundreds of prisoners remain in wire mesh pens edged with coils of razor wire, and earlier this year U.S. military officials revealed that a Bagram interrogator had been convicted of assaulting an Afghan detainee who later died. Just last month, the military issued a statement saying it would investigate whether a pair of U.S. soldiers had abused Afghan detainees...
...said Bhabha, the director of UCHRS. “We are inscribing on our University the principles and inspiration of our work.” A goal of the events is to show students how they can participate in human rights work, according to Cynthia J. Mesh, assistant director of UCHRS. The capstone event will be tomorrow’s ‘Sixty Years of Human Rights: The Idea and the Reality’ panel featuring University Professor Amartya Sen and Medical School Professor Paul Farmer, which is moderated by University President Drew G. Faust...
...There’s a method to our madness,” Delaney-Smith said.The win indicates that Harvard may be hitting its stride, which comes as good news as the team faces five games over the next two weeks.“We are really starting to mesh as a team, and chemistry, on and off the court is really helping us win,” Berry said.—Staff writer Jay M. Cohen can be reached at jaycohen@fas.harvard.edu...
...visiting a school and counseling facility for children affected by the Sichuan earthquake, paid for by Versace and operated under the auspices of Li's charity, the One Foundation. The occasion is only theoretically private. Hundreds of people pour in from the road or strain at the wire mesh that separates the school from the tract of temporary housing it adjoins. There is barely room to stage the songs and dances that the children have so assiduously rehearsed. When Li and Versace tour a classroom, they do so while amazed farmers press faces at every window. Those...
...while remaining incredibly understandable. The cast’s grasp on the play’s complex characters should certainly be commended. The set, conceived by the director in collaboration with Rachel D. Libeskind ’11, was pleasing to look at but did not comfortably mesh with the actual tone of the play. White drapes along the wall and white lace coverings over the furniture and plants perfectly create the starkness of an asylum. The lighting, designed by Michael W. Zellmann-Rohrer ’10, shifts between stark white lights, softer ivory ones, and red tones...