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...Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of more than two dozen law schools opposed to the Solomon Amendment, argued that the Pentagon policy violated the schools’ right to free speech and free association. Harvard declined to join FAIR, but the University filed a friend-of-the-court brief backing FAIR's case last fall...
Last fall, Law School Dean Elena Kagan announced that the school—facing threats from the Pentagon to block more than $400 million in federal funding to Harvard—would once again grant military recruiters access to the school’s Office of Career Services...
Harvard adopted its nondiscrimination policy in 1979 and enforced it until 2002, when then-Dean Robert C. Clark, under heavy Pentagon pressure, agreed to grant military recruiters an exemption. Kagan again barred military recruiters in late 2004, but relented less than a year later...
According to the Pentagon, al-Qahtani admitted that he had been sent to the U.S. by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, architect of the 9/11 attacks, and that he had met bin Laden on several occasions. Al-Qahtani also confirmed that he had received terrorist instruction at two al-Qaeda training camps and met with numerous senior al-Qaeda leaders. Says the Pentagon's Whitman: "The record clearly shows that al-Qahtani is a dangerous individual who should be held to account for his acts of terrorism...
...contractor is not required to perform perfectly to be entitled to reimbursement." RHONDA JAMES, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokeswoman, on the Army's reimbursement to a Halliburton subsidiary of nearly $2.41 billion under a no-bid contract for work in Iraq, despite a Pentagon audit that found $263 million in questionable charges. The Army will pay all but $10.1 million of the contested costs...