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...internationally recognized as a day to salute those around the world who struggle to defend, protect, and promote the fundamental freedoms that are the birthright of all mankind. We may be in the 21st century, but millions of people are still fighting for the liberties we enjoy in this country. Recognition of such abuses throughout the world is the first step in the fight against them...
...public often assumes that what we do not know about the operations of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) cannot hurt us. Indeed, we hope that the CIA may protect us. Yet time and time again, hindsight has revealed that this trust was misplaced, as troubling facts about the CIA and its practices have come to light. These are trespasses for which the agency offers no apology, only evasion and qualification. The destruction of videotapes depicting the interrogation of terrorist operatives represents the latest in a series of violations of public trust in what seems like a return to the disconcerting...
...draw on later when playing better players.” With a little under two months before its next scheduled competitive match, Harvard will have plenty of time to think about what it has learned and how to apply it. With an unbeaten record, the men have much to protect. —Staff writer Vincent R. Oletu can be reached at voletu@fas.harvard.edu...
...uses his method to quickly win mega-bucks from crime boss Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta), who responds, not surprisingly, by ordering a hit on Green. Out of the shadows emerge “brothers” Zach and Avi (Vincent Pastore and André Benjamin, a.k.a. Andre 3000), who protect Green in exchange for help in their loan-sharking business. The two brothers quickly shake up the crime world, systematically stripping Macha of his money and power, while Green is left trying to figure out who his mysterious employers are. Ritchie’s take on the crime world...
...Director Gen. Michael Hayden has admitted that in 2005 the CIA destroyed two videotapes of interrogations of al-Qaeda prisoners, including a central figure in 9/11, Abu Zubaydah. Hayden said the tapes were destroyed to protect the identities of the CIA interrogators from members of al-Qaeda and other terrorists who might try to retaliate. He also claims that the tapes were made to safeguard against unlawful treatment of detainees, and that they were only destroyed after it was confirmed that suspects were not being tortured...