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...Appeals Court Judge Jay S. Bybee received a less-than-cordial welcome at Harvard Law School Thursday when about 35 human rights activists protested his role in formulating policies that some claim justified the torture of detainees.As Bybee exited Pound Hall 202 following a speech on constitutional law instruction, he was confronted in the corridor by chanting students. Most of the protesters donned black hoods to reference the hooded prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.The human rights groups that organized the protest also accused the Federalist Society—the conservative law and policy organization that hosted...
...have since college started. 10. If you ever wonder why Lady isn’t named ‘the Tramp’ after she spends the night in the park with a random mongrel and gets arrested. 11. When you notice that Peg, the saucy, lounge-singing pound ruffian, looks like Goldie Hawn…only better. 12. If you notice the Yale reference in Jim Dear and Darling’s baby preparation. Honestly, the snobbery of this aristocratic family has “Yale Legacy” written all over it. —Mollie K. Wright
...Hills psychiatrist, at the request by Cunningham's lawyers, wrote in a report for last Friday's sentencing hearing that around the time Cunningham's corrupt activity began to be exposed last year, the Attending Physician's office found that he had "symptoms of severe depression with a 60-pound weight loss" and referred him to "the psychiatrist for the United States Senate and the House of Representatives...
...clear that regardless of your ideas about whether or not life begins at conception, by twenty weeks, the organism in question is a “child.” A living, breathing child, which is about a foot long in length, weighs about a pound, and has arms, legs, fingers, and toes. He or she has distinct facial features, with wrinkly reddish skin, eyes, lips, and a nose. Many babies delivered at this point and after are able to survive indefinitely outside the body of the mother. There is even scientific evidence that between weeks...
...that guns were drawn and strip searches performed - charges Agovino categorically denied. He would neither confirm nor deny reports that dozens of syringes, unlabeled medicine bottles and a blood-transfusion machine were seized. "Let's just say what we took away certainly wasn't shaving cream," he said. Richard Pound, head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, had his doubts about Italy's laws criminalizing athletes, but was encouraged by last week's events. "It's a deterrent as much as anything," he said. "It has shown that, acting together, the sports authorities and public authorities can do something about...