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...foundation responsible for funding two Harvard programs at nearly $1 million has been forced to close amid Bernard L. Madoff’s $50 billion securities fraud. Both Harvard groups, which were supported by the JEHT Foundation, received the amount they were promised before the philanthropic organization shut down. The International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School received a total of $161,261 in 2006 and 2008 for its South Africa Apartheid Litigation project. “We’ve received the full amount. The grants are completed essentially,” said Clinical Director Tyler R. Giannini...
...squad’s last three games, the Crimson has averaged a whopping 36 shots per game while being shut out twice...
...fighting the War on Terrorism: "In Afghanistan, the United States and our allies removed the regime that harbored the terrorists who plotted the 9/11 attacks. As a result, more than 25 million Afghans are free; the terrorist training camps have been shut down; and Afghanistan has become an ally in the war on terror. Today Afghanistan has a democratically elected President, a national assembly, a market economy ... Although Afghanistan still faces serious challenges, the international community is working together to help this emerging democracy succeed...
...knowing the difference between a "live drop" and a "dead drop." A professional from the ranks would be eaten up by Hillary Clinton at State or Bob Gates at Defense. Or he or she would end up like Bill Clinton's CIA director, Jim Woolsey, who was shut out of the White House, ignored, and became irrelevant...
...incoming Obama Administration says it wants to shut down the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay. But even if Guantánamo closes, the controversial U.S. practice of jailing suspected al-Qaeda militants and other terrorists indefinitely won't end, because such detentions continue on an even greater scale at the U.S. military base at Bagram, Afghanistan, 40 miles north of Kabul. Approximately 250 detainees are currently being held at Guantánamo; an estimated 670 are locked up under similar conditions at Bagram...