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Outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers has pocketed a thank-you note from an unlikely ally in the Bush cabinet: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, who praised the former Clinton administration official for supporting the military's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program at Harvard...
...recognized the special career challenges those students chose to pursue; and in doing so, you honored all of your students and faculty," Rumsfeld writes in his letter, dated May 31. "Through your actions, you provided every ROTC student with an important sense of belonging, and for that I am most grateful...
...more urgent concern is a case on the detainees' legal rights that the Supreme Court is expected to decide by July. That case, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, could determine whether prisoners have the right to be charged in U.S. civilian courts. Any decision in favor of the detainees would mean a defeat for the elaborate legal framework the Administration has developed to hold Gitmo detainees and other prisoners without charges--and often without trial--by classifying them as "enemy combatants...
...nuclear fears of my graduating class were never, thankfully, borne out. Instead we have lived to see arguments we thought were well-settled reopened, and lessons we thought were well-learned ignored, by leaders whose careers we thought were well-buried. (Didn’t Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld get voted out of the White House when we were in high school...
...Harvard Law School (HLS) friend, Donald S. Scherer, told The Crimson last summer. But Roberts’ amorous attitude toward his alma mater did not overpower his legal judgment in a high-profile case on campus military recruitment this past year.Roberts’ opinion in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR) upheld the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment, which forces universities to give military recruiters equal access to campuses or give up grants from several federal agencies. Harvard would lose more than $400 million a year.The HLS nondiscrimination policy—adopted in 1979, the same...