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...serve as a final chance for the Ancient Eight schools to test the waters before the three-day Ivy League Championship begins Friday at Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield, N.J. Bucknell and George Washington rounded out the eight-team field, and the golfers got to attend a special dinner Saturday night with guest speaker Mark Whittaker, who is the Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News.After gaining momentum back at Caves Valley, the Crimson is poised to make a run at an Ivy title. “It’s an overall effort—everyone has to play...
...order to uphold the rule of law, President Obama must immediately appoint a special prosecutor to investigate violations of both American and international law. Shielding those who perpetrated this American torture regime from investigation and prosecution—or, in the case of Jay Bybee, currently serve on the federal bench—would be a grave miscarriage of justice...
...unconvincing. Nearly all crimes are prosecuted after the fact; murder prosecutions are not dismissed because they would force people to dwell on the past. The Department of Justice is, in fact, compelled by American law and the Convention on Torture to investigate any credible allegations of torture. The UN special rapporteur on torture stated that the U.S. “is committed to conducting criminal investigations of torture and to bringing all persons against whom there is sound evidence to court.” By refusing to investigate, the Obama administration risks complicity in the worst crimes of the Bush...
Other legal responses have been more creative still. A year after Columbine, Kentucky lawmakers agreed to repeal a law that two years before had given every preacher, priest or minister a special legal right to carry arms to the pulpit, with a handgun in the holster underneath the frock. Still, lawmakers refused to ban pistols completely from the pews. Instead, they left it up to churches to decide for themselves whether anybody, preacher or layman, can go to church carrying a piece...
Steve Rattner had never focused on the auto industry before. So yes, he was an odd choice to be a special adviser to the Treasury Department on its dealings with Detroit car manufacturers. And even though he was known mostly for his work as a journalist and as an investor in various media companies, Rattner got right to work, reportedly helping to engineer the ouster of General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner just weeks after joining the Administration...