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...Week. To date, his statistics have been near-historic for a freshman: he has nine goals and 11 assists for the Crimson (11-4-0, 4-1-0 Ivy). Those numbers not only lead the Harvard offense—which is one of the top-scoring offenses in the nation??but give him the most in the league...
...Military Commissions Act into law. With the media’s attention largely fixed on questions of Kim Jong-Il’s mental stability and the accuracy of a study claiming the death of 600,000 Iraqis since the American invasion, the president was busy trampling the nation??s constitution. Shielded by a banner announcing “Protecting America,” Bush signed the act after its predictable success in Congress last month, reasserting his right to deny constitutional protections to enemies of the state...
...might expect the administration’s aggressive attack on constitutional rights to raise a few eyebrows or even hackles in this, the land of the free. Instead, the dissolution of foundational legal principles, which predate this nation, seems to trouble very few in the nation??s mass media. On blogs, on the Internet, on Amnesty International, this dire situation received its due attention. But for some truly inexplicable reason, only a smattering of articles in the major news and a few television commentators denounced the president’s actions. Like the dog that didn?...
...administration that just successfully enacted a range of extra-constitutional powers is led by Bush—that should be a sufficient reason for fear. It is a government which dishonestly and illegally dragged the nation into a disastrous war, which is responsible for increasing the nation??s susceptibility to further attack, and which has presided over countless contraventions of international and domestic law. And yet, despite this, the Bush administration has now been granted some of the most significant unchecked powers in the nation??s history. The kind of law cherished by dictators...
...response, the best the nation??s media had to offer was fleeting reference—the most prolific protesting found in the Sacramento Bee—and some troubled ruminations from Nicholas D. Kristof ’81-’82. Perhaps journalists and the media feared incarceration, but more likely, it was just the gutless silence we’ve come to know and expect...