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...lessons. Then, as in recent years, some were willing, in the name of security, to trade away the people's rights as if they were written in sand, not stone. For much of this decade, we have read about and witnessed such abuses as the scandal at Abu Ghraib, the disclosure of torture memos and the revelations about the warrantless surveillance of Americans...
...MODERN PRESIDENTSAfter John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 it would be 38 years before the Crimson would retake the White House, during which time three Yalies called it home. Forty-third President George W. Bush attended Harvard Business School in the midst of the Watergate scandal, quite the unfortunate time to be the son of a prominent Republican in liberal-leaning Cambridge.Bush’s successor to the presidency thrived during his time at HLS, becoming the editor of the Harvard Law Review. But despite his stellar academic record, Obama has been much more reticent...
...Just when it seemed that the Rod Blagojevich corruption scandal might actually recede from the spotlight, with the accused governor booted out of office and his seemingly unimpeachable Senate pick Roland Burris firmly ensconced in Washington, comes another baffling chapter in the saga. (See pictures of the remarkable world of Rod Blagojevich...
...These shifting explanations have once again made Illinois a laughing stock. Many Republicans in the state, who since the scandal began have been pushing a special election instead of an appointment, are calling for Burris' resignation. Senate Democrats in Washington, who already thought Burris would be a weak candidate for reelection in 2010 before this latest flap, aren't exactly rising to his defense. Even top state Democrats - including House Speaker Michael Madigan and his daughter, Attorney General Lisa Madigan - are asking for a criminal perjury investigation by the State's Attorney for Sangamon County, which covers the capital where...
...eventually exiled for his anti-fascist activities, remembers the interrogations and torture only too well. "I was made to go three days and three nights without sleep," he says of the kind of sleep deprivation tactics that have taken place at Guantanamo. Soares, now 83, has called Guantanamo "the scandal of all scandals" of the Bush administration, and says Europe must now help Obama close it. "Other countries must not be so egocentric," he says...