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...disasters. He has taken his unapologetic message to Congress. Testifying in February, he blamed his bosses at the Department of Homeland Security for FEMA's response to Katrina and urged "corrective action" so that "disasters don't occur in the future." "If we don't learn from this, then shame on us," he said in an interview with NBC. "I will have been scapegoated for nothing...
...what a right is from their own political perspective. And, even more disturbingly, to attempt to avoid compliance with international obligations to which they signed up 60 years ago. What role should lawyers play? The profession bears a heavy responsibility for this legal experimentation - it's a badge of shame. So the profession must also try to put it in reverse. If lawyers see how the law is being misused, they must scream about that. What frustrates you most? In the U.K. we have been in court arguing that we shouldn't use evidence obtained through torture, that people should...
...that fully 1 in 3 of his students' parents went to Harvard. That means one of his many jobs is defusing the tension they promote. On their own, students set up a wall by the counseling office where they post their rejection letters. They call it the Wall of Shame, but it's a great way for them to realize they're not alone in having their Ivy dreams dashed. "It's a community of the rejected," jokes Weintraub...
...Duty Depravity "A Soldier's Shame" [July 17], on the rape and murder of Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi and the killing of her family members by U.S. soldiers, displayed insensitivity and poor judgment. The article began with a discussion of whether Abeer was beautiful. The answer, we learn, is no: she was merely "ordinary." Does it matter? Would the crime be somehow more understandable if the victim had been pretty? The reason the soldier selected her is unknown. Time's decision to evaluate Abeer's physical attractiveness and speculate on what made her "tantalizing" was both poor journalism...
...version of heaven on earth. The buildings cast elaborate, Gothic shadows that I had never seen in the Midwest, where I had attended public high school and dreamed of someday going east to glory. My fellow classmates wore natty outfits that put my dull provincial threads to shame. They also spoke more impressively than I did, dropping the names of ancient Greek philosophers and contemporary French deconstructionists. What was a deconstructionist, exactly? I wasn't sure. But I was dying to learn...