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When University President Lawrence H. Summers was selecting a new dean of the Faculty in 2002, the UC formed an advisory group that met with Summers several times before he chose William C. Kirby to lead the Faculty. But no students served on the president??s faculty advisory committee, which is what the UC resolution, passed last night by a 32-5 vote, calls...
...pain or suffering”—and would thus be permissible. Having whittled the criminal definition of torture down to a nullity, Bybee then argues that the president can order it done anyway. “Executive officials can escape prosecution if they are carrying out the president??s orders as commander in chief,” Bybee writes, invoking the infamous defense the United States had rejected for Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. Harold H. Koh ’75, a dean and professor of international law at Yale, described the Bybee memo...
...president, who will represent the University abroad in meetings with academic, business, and government leaders, along with alumni. The purpose of the trip is to bolster the University’s ties with the world’s second most populous country, and forge new ones, according to the president??s spokesman, John D. Longbrake. Summers will jet off to India, one of the fastest growing developing nations, this weekend and arrive on Monday to start his busy week. India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, will kick off one of the week’s highlights...
...former Harvard administrator said that the emphasis on raising the numbers came from the President??s Office...
...torture memo” produced by the Office of Legal Counsel and signed by Bybee. The memo said that the torture of al Qaeda terrorists held abroad “may be justified” and that international covenants may be an unconstitutional violation of the president??s authority. Many legal experts have attacked the memo, and the Bush administration even took the drastic step of formally disavowing it in June 2004. Yale Law School Dean Harold H. Koh ’75, an expert on international law, called the memo “perhaps the most clearly...