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...Holder faces huge challenges and a ticking clock as the nation's top lawyer. The most urgent is how to implement President Barack Obama's decision to close the brig at Guantánamo in a year and try some 250 alleged terrorists who have been kept there indefinitely. Some of their cases are so sensitive that presenting evidence in open court could compromise national security. As details of Bush-era practices on rendition, torture and wiretapping become known, Holder will have to rewrite some of the most secret rules of engagement used by the U.S. against al-Qaeda while balancing...
...nation's first African-American Attorney General, Holder, 58, brings a unique perspective to the job. In the 1970s, New Jersey police pulled over his Plymouth Duster to search for weapons. The car contained nothing more than Holder, then a dean's-list undergraduate at Columbia University, and a group of black friends. It impressed on Holder the dangers of using the law as a blunt instrument, a lesson he applied years later in overseeing a racial-profiling settlement with the New Jersey state police. After Columbia Law School, he passed up high-paying jobs for a chance to prosecute...
...press, but they didn't mean that the press ought to be free in the sense that no one ought to pay for it. In fact, they believed that the cost of not having a free flow of information in a democracy was too high to pay. "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be," wrote Thomas Jefferson...
...Myths are luxuries that no nation can afford,” Egnal says, and this message could not be more correct or relevant. Marc Egnal is right. We cannot live with the history we want; we must accept all of its complications and difficulties, no matter how hard that...
It’s been three years since the Harvard fencing team won a national championship, and for it, that’s three years too long. But this year, there is one girl who is looking to propel the Crimson back to where it belongs. Freshman sabre fencer Caroline Vloka has proved herself to be key ingredient to the team’s success as Harvard enters the important stretch of its season. “She’s been a great addition to the team,” co-captain Emily Cross said. “She?...