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...Pelosi, the California Democrat, engaged in a small but cheesy bit of deception last week. She released a letter, which quickly found its way to the front page of the New York Times, that she had written on Oct. 11, 2001, to then National Security Agency director General Michael V. Hayden. In it she expressed concern that Hayden, who had briefed the House Intelligence Committee about the steps he was taking to track down al-Qaeda terrorists after the 9/11 attacks, was not acting with "specific presidential authorization." Hayden wrote her back that he was acting under the powers granted...
...Research Center poll conducted this past July, 70 percent of Americans believe that abortion is either sometimes or always morally wrong, yet, as a July 2005 CBS News poll reported, a full 60 percent of Americans believe that the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade was a “good thing.” Many Americans, then, are uncomfortable with abortion on a moral level, but believe it must continue to be safe and legal...
...press conference last month after the NSA program came to light, Gonzales cited last year's Supreme Court ruling in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld as another implicit sanction of the presidential power to okay wiretaps. In that decision, the Justices upheld the detention, without charges, of U.S. citizen Yaser Esam Hamdi, whose designation as an enemy combatant was challenged by his lawyers. The court ruled that his detention was lawful because the "necessary force" provisions of the Sept. 14 resolution gave the President the power to engage in all "fundamental incidents" of war. "Even though signals intelligence is not mentioned...
Want to escape the bad effects of an unhappy childhood this year? The controversial bestselling author and radio host says that if you're wearing a scarlet "V" for victim on your chest, you'll never outrun the past. "Unfortunately, much of the popular therapeutic view and pop psych mentality has functioned," says Schlessinger, "to keep people in self-pitying, victim mode mentality, robbing them of optimism, confidence, hope, growth and change." Instead, urges the author, strive to be a victor...
After yesterday’s Candlemass celebration, which was held in the upper church at St. Paul’s Parish, the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Association (CSA) named its new leadership for 2006. Michael V. Brewer ’07 will take on the leadership role of CSA president for the upcoming year. All Harvard undergrads who attended student mass on Sunday, Dec. 11 were eligible to vote in the elections. Between 200 and 300 students cast votes on the 14-person ballot, estimated outgoing CSA President Anna Lonyai ’06. In an e-mail, Brewer wrote...