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...These are the basic facts: foreigners are being held indefinitely at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, under orders from President Bush. The legal status of these detainees is in flux as the administration argues before the judiciary that American laws do not apply to overseas military installations. Appeals have worked their way up to the Supreme Court, which has sided with the administration...
However, Johnson’s forceful decision did not fare as well. Realizing that the higher courts would overturn the ruling anyway, Koh agreed to have the opinion vacated as precedent. That didn’t affect the status of the refugees, who had already been admitted to the U.S.—but it did mean the ruling wouldn’t be binding for similar cases in the future. In exchange, the Justice Department offered to offset part of the university’s legal fees. As a former presidential adviser told Goldstein, the administration wanted...
...Murphy said. “NFL teams have to see value. It’s a lot like recruiting—everyone sends tapes—but they have to see something.”Dawson is coming off a year in which he further solidified his status as the best back in Harvard history and was named the team MVP. As a junior, he became the first Crimson player ever to have three 1,000 yard rushing seasons, raising his career total to 3,628 yards and becoming the leading rusher in Harvard history.In the season?...
...effect on a prejudice that was little more than 40 years ago a legally-sanctioned feature of American life—and underestimate the lingering force of Jim Crow in American life.Morris also, mystifyingly, suggests that single women will vote for Rice because they identify with her marital status and are jealous of Clinton’s. (He doesn’t recognize the possibility that single women may identify with Hillary’s experience of being perpetually humiliated by her faithless husband.)Morris’ analysis of the 2008 race is—to say the least?...
...next day that I should put a gun in my mouth because I missed the show. I didn’t do that, but I did openly weep because I missed it. Literally.But have any of the shows I’ve been to actually achieved That One Show status? Um, sort of? I mean, weirdly enough, I think the only concert I went to where I actually really felt good and gratified the whole time was a Steamroller-ish mega-event: Prince, live at the Allstate Arena in summer 2004. But those things aren’t even guarantees?...