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...interview with Federal News Radio, Stimson listed the names of several major law firms with lawyers defending Guantánamo detainees, suggesting that they be boycotted. Though these lawyers—coordinated by the Center for Constitutional Rights??work pro bono, Stimson suggested that they were “receiving moneys from who knows where...
...were founded,” principles based in the free market. This misapprehension is unsurprising, coming from a young conservative, but no less troubling. There are three key foundational principles we respect in this Western nation, so much so that we know them as the “unalienable Rights?? of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” More concretely, they are the rights to life, to liberty, and to personal agency. These are the rights that Pinochet denied his countrymen throughout his rule. What was unalienable, he destroyed. What was sacred...
Orfield called UCLA a “more conducive atmosphere to studying civil rights?? because more UCLA faculty members are involved in civil rights research, while there are “very few senior faculty members at Harvard who have real experience in civil rights litigation and research...
...said. Moderators from the Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society maintained order and kept time during the event. “I’m just glad that this didn’t devolve into a shouting match of ‘Oh my god, I want my rights?? versus ‘Oh my god, you’re going to Hell,’” Lam said. An audience member, Paul G. Hamm ’07, said that he appreciated the student-centric nature of the debate. “There were no hotshot...
...SLAM, Adaner Usmani ’08, says. But while he thinks that SLAM is not foremost in people’s minds, he believes that many of the positions taken by activist groups on campus—such as opposition to the war in Iraq or worker rights??are issues that Harvard students would likely agree with. "We’re not taking positions that are very radical at all," he says. "Why do only 20 people come to SLAM meetings...