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...place. Both the student, William A. Frate ’54, and Kennedy were asked to take a year off, and Kennedy spent the next two years serving in the U.S. Army as a military policeman in Paris before re-enrolling at Harvard in the fall of 1953. Upon returning to campus, Kennedy joined the all-male final club the Owl, an association he would sever in 2006 after drawing criticism for condemning Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito, Jr., for his one-time membership in a controversial club at Princeton.Kennedy had “really fond memories?...
...Even worse, some of the gang continues to fan the flames of anti-government protests between the coasts. In a Washington Post interview, Senator Grassley said he would govern “upon the views of whichever group among his constituents yells the loudest” and engenders fear that reform will “pull the plug on grandma.” Senator Enzi has told roaring Wyoming town halls he has no plans to compromise...
Immediately upon entering the bowels of the house, you're assaulted with a landfill of dusty refrigerators just at the bottom of the steps. The labyrinth that is Adams' basement is made worse by the fact that they've decided to willingly use halls as storage space, and throw junk in whatever tiny, far-off closet they could find...
...During the legislative debates in 2005 and 2006, McCain argued against applying the Army Field Manual rules to the CIA, saying intelligence agencies should not be constrained by military rules. Upon taking office, President Obama announced that the CIA would be limited to the field manual's techniques. Obama also began a process to review the possibility of adding additional methods, beyond the field manual, for the interrogation of high-value detainees...
...instance, he thinks waterboarding "was and is torture," and he wishes the Bush Administration had not permitted it. He thinks President George W. Bush should have gone to Congress sooner to get permission to expand the National Security Agency's domestic-spying program. He even frowns upon the Bush policy of indefinite detention for suspected terrorists, a policy that the Obama Administration has hinted it may continue to some degree. "It seems inconsistent with a country that prides itself on the rule of law," Ridge said on Aug. 30 in an interview with TIME. (Read "Obama's Delicate Balance...