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Anna L. Falicov ’02-’03 is an urban studies and planning concentrator in Dudley House. Roona Ray ’02-’03 is a biology and women’s studies concentrator in Dudley House. They are members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement...
Director Gregory Hoblit and screenwriters Billy Ray and Terry George, working from John Katzenbach’s novel, desperately try to create a movie that is both a courtroom drama and a war story, though they lack the prerequisite fighting of a war movie and the judicial aspects of a compelling courtroom drama. Furthermore, the film’s message about honor and courage is blatantly spelled out; for the moviegoer who might miss the lesson, a voiceover describes how the protagonist is now able to tell his son the true meaning of the words for which he fights. These...
Over the past month, the United States has begun transferring detainees captured in the Afghanistan conflict to a military base in Cuba. Currently, the camp in Guantanamo Bay, known as “Camp X-Ray,” is holding 158 Afghan fighters. The United States government has been criticized by organizations such as the International Red Cross and Amnesty International for its handling of the prisoners due to the release of photographs from the base and their classification as “unlawful combatants...
...Administration's internal debate was starting to look like a good cop-bad cop routine, Rumsfeld's prison tour - which included liberal Democratic Senators like California's Diane Feinstein, a prisons expert - seemed to have least blunted international criticism about the detainees' treatment at Camp X-Ray. "I would rather be in an 8-by-8 cell with a (tropical) breeze than to be locked down at Folsom Prison," Feinstein said after her own close-up look at conditions inside X-Ray, an arid patch beneath Guantanamo's hills where Haitian refugees were once held. Another Democratic Senator, Hawaii...
...Sunday, the Bush Administration's internal rift over prisoners taken in the war on terrorism stepped right up to the chain-link doors of the cells holding Taliban and Al-Qaeda captives at Guantanamo. As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld walked into Camp X-Ray, a detainee who had just finished washing his face wrapped his towel over his hair in the manner of Arab headwear. A U.S. military police guard told him to take it off, worried that weapons - like the rocks Guantanamo brass suspect the detainees may be using to write covert notes of revolt to one another - could...