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Critics of Guantánamo say that after years of alleged torture and abuse, detainees aren't competent to plead guilty, as the five men are trying to do. Disputes over issues like that make it unlikely the proceedings will wrap up before the Inauguration on Jan. 20--which will complicate Obama's task of closing the facility and ending an embarrassing chapter in the war on terrorism. In any event, the military judge, Army Colonel Stephen R. Henley, refused to accept the guilty pleas. He said he needed first to resolve the question of whether a plea--instead...
Many Americans may associate the complete end of slavery with the American Civil War over a century ago. But in some parts of the world, this is not true—not even in the United States. The two authors of the recently published book “To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today’s Slaves” spoke in a public forum moderated by Timothy P. McCarthy ’93 in Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium last night. Kevin Bales, a leading expert on modern-day slavery, and Zoe Trodd...
...taxpayers can relax about that imposing figure. Whether it's donor fatigue or anger that the Big Three to a large extent brought this upon themselves, there simply isn't the political will in Washington to pass a comprehensive rescue plan. When they returned to Congress last week to plead for help, the automakers asked for $34 billion in order to avoid bankruptcy. Most economists agree that if even one of the Big Three - Chrysler, General Motors or Ford - were to file for Chapter 11, it would have a potentially crippling cascade effect on the economy. The automakers and their...
...have no such excuse. We can plead neither the immaturity of children, nor the cynicism of adults, nor the incredible self-aggrandizement of Machiavellian world leaders. Not now—not yet. Extracurricular activities in college are never necessary to success in life, but rather a welcome distraction from it. At Harvard, they may be where the next generation of elites practices changing the world—but it is still only practice. And if that elite is so concerned about winning now, shouldn’t we all worry about what it will one day bring...
...said the South African singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka of Miriam Makeba, who died Nov. 10 at 76. The first African woman to win a Grammy, Makeba, known affectionately as "Mama Africa," traveled to New York City in 1963. She appeared before the U.N.'s special committee on apartheid to plead for intervention in South Africa. Her nation repaid Makeba by exiling her until 1990, when President Nelson Mandela personally asked her to return...