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...professor who litigated this summer??s landmark U.S. Supreme Court case ruling that military commissions for Guantanamo Bay detainees violate Geneva Convention prohibitions lauded that decision at the Harvard Law Review’s annual Supreme Court Forum yesterday. Georgetown University law professor Neal K. Katyal, a former Justice Department official, said in his address yesterday that the central issue in the case was whether presidents must follow the laws that govern warfare. “This case is not just on military commissions alone,” Katyal said. “The central premise is that...
...Israeli counselor for Middle Eastern affairs defended Israel’s actions during this summer??s conflict with Hezbollah at a Harvard Students for Israel event yesterday. Eynat Shlein-Michael, the counselor, who is based in Israel’s Washington D.C. embassy said that Israel was not fighting a “war” against Lebanon but was engaged in a “conflict” with the non-state terror organization Hezbollah. “We chose not to fight Lebanon. Hezbollah is our enemy,” she said. Shlein-Michael said...
...this year had brought a bitter defeat for the administration in the Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which rejected the legitimacy of military tribunals and their suspension of constitutional rights. But the new Military Commissions Act now hands the president even more power than he held before this summer??s hiccup, and paves the way for more extreme behaviors, all in the name of freedom, democracy, and the American...
...year of experience, the young team can only look to rise—to erase the memories of Radcliffe’s first season without an NCAA trip in nine years.And with a rising star in Lofgren—who won gold at the U23 World Championships this summer??success, in the form of a return to the NCAA National Championship, is very much likely. After a season like 2006, the team simply expects more.“We have to get back to our top level,” Lofgren says. “But we have...
...freedom instead of diminishing it. The case of the Humanities portal courses should become the rule. Instead of leaving it up to the Faculty to approve the Core, FAS should appoint a small group of trusted professors—like those who produced the report over the summer??and provide them with the specific mandate to choose and swiftly implement a new Core. Only decisive action, maybe through an educational Cincinnatus, will save us from the deluge. Pierpaolo Barbieri ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history concentrator in Eliot House...