Word: orals
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...their time in prison may be coming to an end. This week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Washington heard oral arguments over the fate of the Uighurs, who were ordered released by a lower court last month. The oral arguments marked another step along the case's path toward the Supreme Court, where it will likely land early next year as President-elect Barack Obama takes office. Obama, who has vowed to close Guantánamo, will probably release most of the roughly 225 prisoners held there and find a way to try a select...
...Iowa is the only state in the country where we have an open marriage case pending before a court," Chrisler said. (The Iowa high court will hear oral arguments in December.) "So we expect the battle to move now to issues like gay adoption and foster parenting, There isn't anywhere left for the other side to go on marriage." (See a video from a gay wedding...
...themes that Achebe tackles in “Things Fall Apart” are emblematic of those he has negotiated throughout his career. Achebe traverses cultural boundaries by integrating them. In “Things Fall Apart,” he blends features of the African oral tradition with English literary tropes. Although the novel is written in English, Achebe mimics the cadence and narrative structure of the Ibo language, and the characters’ lives revolve around priorities informed by Umuofian values. This blurring of boundaries is to be expected from Achebe, who was born in a Nigerian village...
...August, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York made the unusual move of revisiting a previously decided case challenging the Bush Administration's practice of extraordinary rendition, in which U.S. authorities hand certain terrorist suspects to outside countries for interrogation. On Dec. 9, the court will hear oral arguments in the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen whom U.S. authorities seized at New York's J.F.K. airport in September 2002 and then sent to Syria, where Arar claims he was tortured before being released without charge. Previously, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District...
...them supporting us,” Covington said. The Obama supporter, who joined the festivities in Canaday, said the election fever may interfere with his academic duties. “I might just not go to sleep,” Covington said. “I have a Chinese oral midterm tomorrow.” —Staff Writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...