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Captain Jason Norman finished the year with the lowest scoring average of any of the starters, but his status as the team’s defensive stopper and offensive spark will be difficult to replace. Norman relished the challenge of clamping down on the other team’s top scorer and turning steals into fast-break dunks, and he memorably shut down former Player of the Year Jason Forte in Harvard’s win at Brown...
...He’s the kind of guy who would gravitate toward an environment like that,” Wool said. “A lot of money, and a lot of social status...
...students argue that a student center could fill this void. Although such a space probably won’t sky rocket Harvard to the top of the list in student social satisfaction, it would at least provide an alternative venue for those students who are relegated to perpetual guest status at the clubs. Yet despite the growing demand for more student space, it seems doubtful that there will be blue prints for a student center on Larry Summers’ desk any time soon...
WHAT IS THEIR STATUS? The U.S. considers none of the detainees prisoners of war, which means they do not enjoy rights under the Geneva Convention, which protects POWs from indefinite imprisonment and aggressive interrogation. Because the detainees allegedly targeted civilians and did not belong to a conventional army-or, in the case of the Taliban, did not serve under a legitimate government, in the U.S.'s view-Washington classifies them as unlawful or enemy combatants, a decision that numerous critics vehemently disagree with...
...argued that the detainees are beyond the reach of U.S. law. Last June, however, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prisoners have the right to challenge their captivity in federal court. Since then, some 150 detainees have filed petitions doing just that. The government has argued that the Combatant Status Review Tribunals-panels of three military officers that have been in place since last July-have given detainees all the due process to which they are entitled. Earlier this year a federal judge strongly disagreed, citing the fact that detainees were not allowed to have lawyers present at the review...