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...Federal courts have no jurisdiction in these cases," Judge A. Raymond Randolph wrote for the court majority in a 25-page opinion. He added that arguments to the contrary were "creative but not cogent...
...Judge Judith Rogers, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton, dissented from the majority, declaring in a minority opinion that the suspension of habeas corpus for Guantanamo prisoners - in a law President Bush signed last year - was unconstitutional, and also violated long-established U.S. legal principles...
Christopher Lacaria is welcome to his opinion (“The Apotheosis of Dr. Faust,” column, Feb. 11) about the selection of Harvard’s new president. But casting aspersions on President-elect Faust’s stunning record of historical scholarship on the Civil War, slave owners, and the political economy of Southern plantation agriculture is a strange response from a student of history at Harvard College. In particular, his derisive citing of Faust’s essay analyzing the impact of the exaggerated scale of deaths during the Civil War?...
...advanced research as ‘obscurantist’ is a screen for ignorance. And it is an odd sort of “hen house” that has so many roosters. Most research projects at the Institute have nothing to do with gender. After having read this opinion piece, that is perhaps a shame...
...light bulbs in your home with high-efficiency globes that will cut your power bill; you assign your carbon rights to Easy Being Green, which gets abatement certificates and sells them to polluters. Last year, the company distributed 3 million bulbs to 500,000 homes. Even with public opinion turning green, Burnes says it can be a tough sell. "Offering people something for free is the major attraction," he says. "But it's still hard convincing older people, who can be stuck in their ways." On the home front, some electricians wonder how renewable energy sources such as solar will...