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Hebah M. Ismail ’06 had planned to work with Law School clinical instructor Ahmad Amara in Israel for eight days for a research project on Bedouin land rights, but Ismail was detained in Tel Aviv’s airport for two days and then deported. Now Amara is considering suing for compensation, he said...
Amara, who was not able to complete his research due to Ismail’s absence, said that he hopes to work with the Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic to help ensure that Law School students will not have trouble entering foreign countries in the future...
...slides quoted passages from many of the working groups recommendations and cited broad ideas expressed by the groups—including continuing to offer a superior education to graduates and undergraduates, and maintaining the freedom of the faculty to research as they wish...
...While Elmendorf's career has moved on the same track as Orszag's - before arriving at the CBO, for instance, Elmendorf, like Orszag, had served as head of the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project, an economic-research program - the two men's styles could hardly be more different. Orszag sought a high profile for a bureaucrat, lecturing frequently and spending so much time in television studios that he carried his own makeup. Elmendorf rarely gives a television interview and says he is still startled when someone recognizes him as he is commuting home on the subway. (Orszag, who was recently...
...Elmendorf acknowledges that he has benefited enormously from the work Orszag did before he left for the Obama White House. Orszag expanded the CBO staff, particularly the number who specialize in health care, and produced volumes of research on the subject. Nonetheless, Elmendorf says, the workload this year has been such that his staff has been working six to seven days a week, with computer traffic often continuing until...