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...actually drafting, a change in the Administration's rules on torture, was asked to explain himself before the Senators of the Judiciary Committee who are considering his nomination. Three years after 9/11, the question remains: How did we end up abusing prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and the U.S. naval base at Guant??namo Bay, Cuba--almost 20 inmate deaths are being investigated--and what is our policy...
Democracy seems especially pallid in a year when political drama has had a bracing revival. Plays like Guantánamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom'--another British import, about the treatment of detainees at the U.S. naval base in Cuba--have built compelling drama out of real-life interviews and transcripts, while such anti-Bush works as Sam Shepard's new The God of Hell, a caustic parable about a nefarious government agent terrorizing a Wisconsin farm couple, give off the sparks of real political anger. By comparison, the polite, political-science-class dramatics of Democracy seem as outmoded...
Murphy, who guided Harvard to the only perfect record in Division I-AA this season, has drawn widespread attention before, receiving coaching offers from the United States Naval Academy and the University of Delaware and reported interest from the University of Florida after Steve Spurrier’s departure. Following the Crimson’s victory in The Game on Nov. 20, Sports Illustrated columnist Steve Rushin devoted his weekly “Air and Space” column to Murphy and his achievements at Harvard with an article dubbed “The Real Crimson Tide...
...likely be adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to his salary. For a family man with a wife and three young children to provide for, offers of that sort aren’t easy to turn down, and Murphy has already done so more than once. The United States Naval Academy and the University of Delaware have both sought his services in the past, and his NFL-bound quarterback says there are others who’ve done so as well...
Following his team’s first perfect season in 2001, Murphy declined head coaching positions at both the United States Naval Academy and the University of Delaware. His name was also reportedly on the short list of candidates to replace Steve Spurrier at the University of Florida, though Murphy, who arrived at Harvard in 1994, sheepishly contends “that list was a lot longer than you think...