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Last year, Harvard (1-0) dropped a tight defensive battle to the Crusaders (1-1), losing 65-57. Holy Cross went on to win the Patriot League and took top-seeded Kansas to the wire in the NCAA Tournament...
...director Phillip Noyce has made two new films--The Quiet American from Graham Greene's 1955 novel and Rabbit-Proof Fence--that dramatize these roiling issues. Both films are cast as adventures; Noyce, who directed the Tom Clancy thrillers Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, is a master at encasing political messages in action and passion. The result is a pair of films that are both pointed and poignant...
...Crimson returns to the hardwood tomorrow night against defending Patriot League champion Holy Cross...
...preventive detention” of thousands of Muslim, Arab and South Asian immigrants under an alarming cloak of secrecy. It is telling that the government still refuses to give a number for how many people were so detained, and how many stay so. Further, the USA PATRIOT Act allows the attorney general practically unchecked power in the treatment of noncitizens. He need merely proclaim to have “reasonable grounds” to believe “terrorist” activity has taken place to hold non-citizens indefinitely, a far cry from any standard that would be acceptable...
...deliberative democracy should not be discarded in favor of the unchecked consolidation of executive power. The only way to insure this is to provide an atmosphere of free inquiry. It is, of course, no surprise that there has been so little debate since the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, especially considering Attorney General John Ashcroft’s now infamous dissent-on-dissent: “To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists.” This is a gravely troubling remark from the chief...