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...While this review process has made the Press’ name, staff members are always looking for new ways to make their books more relevant to the modern reader. For example, catchy design can make a scholarly work more accessible. Recently, the Press reissued the John Harvard Library, a series of American writings originally printed in the 1970s. Stormy blue-grey portraits of individual authors appear on the covers of each edition. The portraits, by contemporary artist Robert Carter, add energy to the old writings...
...approved budget—which allots approximately $103 million to employee salaries and wages, $26 million to other ordinary maintenance costs, $1.4 million to travel and training expenses, and $3.3 million for extraordinary expenditures—has been forwarded to the city council for review. —Staff writer Michelle L. Quach can be reached at mquach@fas.harvard.edu...
...broad outline was deemed a flop because it lacked specifics, and Ryan and the leaders engaged in some public finger-pointing, effectively stepping on the substance of the detailed plan when it was released a week later. As former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie noted in a National Review editorial, the GOP should expect to be mocked in the media these days. "It was Barack Obama who proved that a candidate has the ability to disseminate facts and a message to millions of voters directly," wrote Gillespie, a former adviser to President Bush. "Republicans need to turn this tide...
...unexpected twist, Stafford Smith now faces possible imprisonment himself. The British lawyer has been summoned with his Reprieve colleague Ahmed Ghappour to appear before the Columbia District Court on May 11, to answer a complaint of "unprofessional conduct" lodged by the Pentagon's Privilege Review Team (PRT). If found guilty in what amounts to a contempt charge, Stafford Smith and Ghappour face up to six months in prison...
...member of the PRT, which monitors communications between Gitmo detainees and their lawyers, gives a very different account in a declaration to the court. The PRT member says Ghappour was advised that the PRT was not the right body to review a memo to the President. According to the declaration, "Mr Ghappour left my office at that point but subsequently returned with a heavily redacted memorandum ... Mr Ghappour asked me if the PRT could review this memorandum. Because this was a very unusual submission, I asked him what the point of reviewing such a document would be. He replied that...