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...surrounding the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, than Neal Katyal. In 2006, Katyal led a successful Supreme Court case challenging the legality of the Bush Administration's military tribunals in Guantánamo, a ruling that sounded one of the first death knells for Camp X-Ray. But two years later, difficult questions about how to close Guantánamo continue to vex legal minds ranging from Katyal to the advisers now gathering around President-elect Barack Obama. "This is a huge and difficult problem," says Katyal, who teaches national-security law at Georgetown University...
...that point, in theory, the detainees would face four possible fates: being charged with offenses that could be tried in federal courts; court-marshaled according to the Uniform Code of Military Justice; turned over to the governments of their native countries; or simply released. (See pictures from inside Camp X-Ray at Guantánamo here...
...Beatles had entered the video game scene earlier: exploring Princess Peach’s castle to the tune of “When I’m (Super Mario) Sixty-Four,” hearing “I’m Looking Through You” when the x-ray visor was used in Metroid Prime, watching Dr. Robotnik of “Sonic” fame sing “I am the Eggman / Goo goo g’joob!” Surely that stupid pink dinosaur in “Mario Tennis 64” would...
...many flaws, most notably his limited foreign policy experience. He’ll certainly be held accountable when the mechanics are incorrect. But more importantly, he is a symbol of the triumph of Hope over rusty Experience, and as a persuasive communicator, will continue to spread Hope. As Malcolm X, said long ago when he returned from the Hajj, “the true criterion of leadership is spiritual.” The spiritual Hope of Barack Obama touches not only what is deepest in Americans, but what is deepest in all mankind...