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More than that, the measures adopted by Congress last week stripped defendants of the ancient habeas corpus right to challenge their detention in court--a step that makes it possible that the Supreme Court will strike down some portion of the law and send everybody back to the drawing board. "The Supreme Court has made clear on three recent occasions that those whom the White House labels enemy combatants are entitled to challenge their detention before a federal judge," says Eric Freedman, a law professor at Hofstra University who is a legal consultant to Guantnamo detainees. "This...
President Bush avoided a face-to-face confrontation with Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations last week, but elsewhere on Manhattan, Kennedy School of Government professor Ashton B. Carter confronted the controversial Tehran chief head-on. The encounter left some observers hopeful that the U.S. could strike up a dialogue with leader of a regime that admits it is pursuing a nuclear program. But for others, Ahmadinejad’s obstinance reinforced their impression that Iran isn’t willing to budge an inch on issues such as weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and human rights. Ahmadinejad...
...from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, HUDS pulled pre-bagged greens from the menu. Still, odds are nobody’s going to end up puking in Stillman at least for anything but the usual punch + vodka + TLR misadventures.Why so fast, HUDS? Harvard has already had several epidemics strike campus: In 1948, an unidentified virus sickened more than 1,000 undergrads and was eventually traced to the Kirkland House kitchen. Most recently, in 1994, a 24-hour stomach virus struck nearly 200 freshmen, forcing the College to send students to outside hospitals as it dragged on a public health...
...India’s nuclear deterrence is a measure of self defense...in a hostile environment,” he said, adding that India is committed to never using its nuclear weapons in a first-strike capacity...
...dictator refuses to attend, the court can demand that Saddam be brought before the judge by force. Guards used force during the Dujail case in February to bring Saddam and three other defendants, disheveled and in their pyjamas, to hear testimony. Saddam then claimed he was on a hunger strike to protest his rough treatment by then chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman...