Word: transferal
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...soldiers held Omar for more than a year without charges or, he says, legal counsel, and they planned to transfer him to Iraqi courts. So Omar's wife and son filed for habeas corpus, a demand that a judge determine whether Omar's imprisonment was legal. But Justice Department lawyers came back with a startling response: the judge had no power over Omar's case. Why? Because the soldiers holding Omar weren't acting under U.S. law. As members of the Multi-National Force--Iraq, they operated under U.N. Security Council resolutions. And Supreme Court precedent bars U.S. courts from...
...Students really liked these last few years; very few of them tried to transfer and we look at that as a real measure of success,” he added...
...packed schedules could eat outside the dining halls,” said Carey W. Hynes ’09. “I don’t see the harm in giving students both options.” But Olivia G. Volkoff ’09, a first-year transfer student from Columbia, who ate with a flexible points plan at her previous college, said she supported keeping Harvard’s unlimited meal plan. “Freshman year, everyone at Columbia is forced to eat in the freshman dining hall. After that, though, everyone gets off the meal...
...pandemic were to be as deadly as the 1918 flu, 96% of its estimated 62 million victims would come from developing countries. But withholding information on H5N1 isn't the answer. Instead, Heymann and the WHO are working to expand vaccine production in the developing world, enlisting companies to transfer medical technology there and encouraging wider use of seasonal flu vaccines, considered a luxury in poorer countries. Says Heymann: "We need to change the way the system works in a way that could benefit the entire world...
...suddenly sporting a six-pack or made up to look gorgeous, it feels unnatural and cheap. In the fourth movie, for example, an entire scene is dedicated to a female character trying to spy on him in the bath, and all the action scenes glorify his physique. In transfer from page to screen, Harry has become the brooding teenage hunk, fitting into the cheap, star-studded framework of Hollywood aesthetics. In the novel, Harry is exceptional for being a bookish hero; in the movie, for being some sort of jailbait Adonis. Even worse, the supporting actors—creepy Alan...