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...administration and a group of Republican senators who believed that the bill initially proposed by the administration was unconstitutional. The administration has been pushing for legislation on the treatment of detainees since a Supreme Court decision in June struck down the military tribunal system used in Guantanamo to try terror suspects. An HLS third-year student, Britton A. Schwartz, told the audience that the recent measure “leaves Guantanamo in its status as a legal black hole.” Deborah A. Popowski, a member of HLS Advocates for Human Rights and second-year student at HLS, claimed...
...Even with its ratings down, Fox remains the network against which competitors define themselves. And not just news competitors. After Bill Clinton got off an on-camera harangue against Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace, for an aggressive line of questioning about his administration's anti-terror efforts, the New York Times reported that prominent Democrats, from Howard Dean to Paul Begala, had begun an open campaign of attacking Fox as a covert Republican shill...
...will never have perfect systems that can prevent every conceivable act of violence in the nation's vast network of schools. But we can reduce the chances of the next Columbine or Nickel Mines by taking some basic actions now. And if these actions help discourage some terror organization from planning an American Beslan, all the better...
...image of a person grieving expresses a certain rawness, a singular emotional intensity that, strangely, rarely surfaces in images of the 9/11 aftermath. Artists dealing with acts of terror are often content to represent a more general sense of national grief through abstract images, like the photographs of twisted debris that comprise Joel Meyerowitz’s photo-book “Aftermath.” Often, this results in gripping, affective art.But when someone explicitly grieves for a friend who died in the attacks, the moment is special, charged with the weighty energy that comes only with proximity...
...home on the last day of a trial in which he'd testified against his torturer, former police commissioner Miguel Etchecolatz, who ran clandestine detention centers during the dictatorship. His apparent abduction has sent a chill down the spines of many Argentines, unsettled by memories of the state of terror imposed by the military in the 1970s. Lopez's disappearance "has touched a sensitive nerve in society," said an editorial in Clarin, Argentina's largest-selling newspaper. "It revives fears of one of the darkest episodes in Argentine history...