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Some help with the decisions is to come from the Priorities Committee, an ad hoc body that will function until the completion of the Faculty’s budgetary plans in March. Smith will announce the members of the committee at today’s meeting, according to FAS spokesman Robert P. Mitchell...
Allen Salkin, who wrote the canonical Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us, and became the unofficial spokesman for the anti-holiday - popularized by a 1997 episode of Seinfeld - does not see any conspiracy here. "Fundamentally Festivus is cheap," he pointed out. "And I say this as someone who wants you to buy the new and updated paperback version of the book for $9.99 this year...
...earlier this year that was obtained by TIME. The deposition describes Hartmann demanding prosecution access to all sorts of sensitive records, notably those of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which has conducted private visits to hundreds of Gitmo prisoners. (Click here to read the deposition.) An ICRC spokesman told TIME the organization would strongly oppose use of its Guantanamo reports in court as a breach of confidentiality and a threat to its humanitarian mission...
...spokesman for Hartmann said the general was not available for interviews and would have no comment. Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England, the Pentagon's second highest official, did issue the following statement to TIME: "Misunderstandings of the military commission process have led to confusion and controversy. In this environment, BGEN Tom Hartmann has been the steady hand to ensure that the process is open, fair and just. I am grateful for his strong, focused and effective leadership during these dangerous and challenging times." England, who reports to Pentagon boss Robert Gates, is expected to leave in the coming weeks...
...currency against the dollar more than 15%. But it will also show that during his last visit to Beijing as Treasury Secretary - which ended today - Paulson and his team had to ask the Chinese government not to backtrack on its commitment to "continued currency reform," as a Treasury spokesman put it. The RMB has recently weakened against the dollar, raising global alarm bells that China might try to devalue it as a way to revive its gasping export sector, putting pressure on other exporters to weaken their currencies and stirring up protectionist sentiment in Washington - particularly among U.S. labor unions...