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...Loans In a rare piece of welcome news for students struggling to pay for college, the Federal Government is offering a loan-repayment plan that reduces monthly bills for graduates who take home thinner paychecks. The new policy is accompanied by an interest-rate reduction on new federal subsidized Stafford loans, which will drop from 6% to 3.4% by 2012. Students who work in public service can have the balance of their loans forgiven after 10 years...
...Newman Society organized a petition calling for Notre Dame president Father John Jenkins to disinvite the President. Professional protesters such as Alan Keyes and Randall Terry have descended on the South Bend campus, pushing blood-covered baby dolls in Spongebob strollers and getting themselves arrested. And Cardinal James Francis Stafford, one of the highest-ranking Americans at the Vatican, has declared Obama an unfit honoree because his statements on abortion reflect "an agenda and vision that are aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic...
...father Frank worked as a fitter for English Electric, stood as a parliamentary candidate for the Labour party and managed Stafford Rangers soccer club in his spare time...
...case revolves around a letter sent by Stafford Smith to Obama, and published in February by media on both sides of the Atlantic. The letter details Mohamed's allegations of U.S. involvement in his torture and rendition. In it, Stafford Smith says that as "U.S. lawyers with appropriate security clearances we have access to this classified material" and adds that a memorandum setting out the evidence will be attached. "We will send you only what we are allowed to send you," he writes. The attachment is a memo, blacked out but for date, sender and subject line: Torture of British...
Just as Scotland Yard's investigation into MI5 is without precedence, this is the first contempt case brought by the PRT. Privately U.S. officials are angry about what they see as a publicity stunt. Delahunt makes no comment on the case, but says Stafford Smith "has demonstrated again and again integrity and respect for the law ... Defense counsels probably have one of the most difficult and unpopular tasks in any democracy," he adds. "If they didn't take their role seriously and aggressively, then democracy wouldn't function." The substance of Mohamed's claims, which lie at the heart...