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...sought a lawyer. He told us to stall while a title search was made. It wasn't easy, as the deed number had been obscured on the copy the general had given us. But when we were shown the original, we were stunned: there was a big, red stamp on the top, forbidding the owner from selling or renting out the property. We subsequently learned from court documents that he had borrowed money against the house, been unable to repay it, and had his ownership revoked. The house had already been put up for auction three times by the court...
...somewhat open to outside reform, the CIA is ever on guard against it. The agency has always been better than the FBI at doing bureaucratic judo, working the press or finding a CLASSIFIED stamp for documents that it may not want to see the light of day. The commission found and disclosed a number of these last week that suggested the CIA was slow to report, if not detect, the jihadist army that was forming on the horizon in the 1990s. The commission reported that though al-Qaeda was formed in 1988, the CIA "did not describe" the organization comprehensively...
...from the University. If, however, it comes from a carelessness of others' rights, from an unwillingness to "play the game fairly," the case is harder to deal with, though only a relatively few men may be involved. Most clubs are exclusive precisely in order that men of this stamp may be kept out. We are trying to run the Union on a generous democratic basis, and we insist that every Harvard man who wants them should enjoy the privileges of the House. If we are to succeed, two things are essential; every man must be willing to combine with...
...even if freed, would be allowed to attend or whether delegates will be able to speak freely. Some delegates were sentenced to long jail terms for criticizing the last convention, which collapsed in 1996. All this fuels the suspicion that the generals merely want the upcoming convention to rubber-stamp a constitution that would preserve their grip on power...
While Kirby has not yet officially approved the initiative, the four professors spearheading the project hope to receive Kirby’s rubber stamp and to budget plans within the next few weeks...