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...assistant also sends out recommendation letters for students applying to graduate or pre-professional schools. Additionally, he or she is often the sole “point of access” in Houses, providing students with impromptu counseling and advising, and fielding questions about academic policies, according to a memorandum presented to the College Working Group by assistants to the resident deans of all 12 Houses. “I can’t imagine the House functioning without us. House life would effectively fall apart,” said Otto F. Coontz, assistant to the Adams House resident dean...
...Complex, prompting the Mayor to scribe a sharply-worded letter to Faust listing a set of community concerns that he expected would be addressed in the near future. Among his requests were an inventory of the University’s existing property holdings and their interim uses and a memorandum detailing conditions under which the University could purchase more real estate in the future. Harry Mattison and Ray Mellone, local residents and members of the Harvard Allston Task Force, said they were not concerned about the recent property acquisition and welcomed the moratorium on real estate acquisition...
...primary memorandum submitted in support of the marijuana case, complete with a high-minded quotation from Thomas Jefferson, reads as a glowing testament to the power of the jury. It is the “ultimate check,” a protector of “liberty,” a “bulwark” against slavish adherence to the letter of the law. It is, in short, precisely what is needed for the success of someone like Nesson, a man who advocates for causes that hinge on breaking the laws as they currently stand. A belief...
...legal memorandum for the CIA, prepared by Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, reviewed 10 enhanced techniques for interrogating Zubaydah, and determined that none of them constituted torture under U.S. criminal law. The techniques were: attention grasp, walling (hitting a detainee against a flexible wall), facial hold, facial slap, cramped confinement, wall standing, stress positions, sleep deprivation, insects placed in a confinement box, and waterboarding.(View pictures of life inside Guantanamo...
...desire to use insects during interrogations has not previously been disclosed, according to two civil liberties experts contacted by TIME. The Bybee memorandum, which was written on August 1, 2002, described the CIA's plans for using insects this...