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Obama has vowed to close Guantánamo and reject the Military Commissions Act, the 2006 law underpinning the ongoing Guantánamo tribunals. But major hurdles stand in the way of doing so, even for a new President with a clear mandate...
Along with frequent-flyer miles and a passport packed with colorful stamps, almost every experienced globetrotter has at least one great story about a one-night stand in a foreign land. Which isn't surprising. Traveling is so romantic in nature - moonlight over unfamiliar cityscapes, trains rumbling through thousand-year-old crumbling vistas - it would seem a shame not to share it with someone. And practically speaking, of course, hooking up with a winsome local means you've got an insider's guide to the best restaurants and someone to help you work off the calories with later...
...think that we were able to stand back from American culture, stand back from comic books, although we'd read them all our lives. I can't imagine that we could have done Watchmen if we hadn't had that detachment. You know? Love for the subject matter, love for the culture, but a detachment. And perhaps a slight British cynicism? Impressed, but not impressed...
...took to be the manager (he was actually the owner), he told me that since we were “so late,” he had had to break up the table, and let the eight of us (two couldn’t make it) stand there blocking foot traffic for half an hour before seating us not at a long table, but at adjacent booths. We were not happy.2. Dress for the tropics. Every table has a heating plate in the middle to keep the broth simmering. The restaurant felt like the steam room at the neighborhood...
...Bands. Four of those bands would win a contract with Veritas Records, Harvard’s student-run record company. Already victors among the approximately 50 band submissions to compete in the Battle, the winners represent a range of styles.Opening the night was Caitria O’Neill, the stand-in name for a band formed specifically for the competition.“I found out I was playing in Battle of the Bands,” Caitria E. O’Neill ’11 told the audience in between songs, “and then I found...