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...allowable methods should be. The clearest limit to what might be done was actually not so clear. The new methods could not constitute "grave breaches" of the Geneva Conventions. But after all the huffing and puffing from Republican Senators John McCain, John Warner and Lindsey Graham, the Executive Branch kept control over what exactly could happen to an "enemy combatant." It was allowed to decide who an enemy combatant might be. The package of measures widened the definition to include any person determined to be one under criteria defined by the President or the Secretary of Defense...
...Perez understood those risks. She had chosen to go into the highly selective Medical Service Corps and, even though it's not a combat branch, she understood that she'd be in as much danger as anyone. Because of the shortened officer basic training of the medical corps, Ramirez-Raphael says that Perez "knew she would probably be deployed before the huah! infantry set were. She told me, 'I'll be there and back before those guys even get their boots in the sand.'" Ramirez-Raphael says that Perez had already survived several previous convoy attacks in Iraq. After...
DormAid currently serves students at 23 college and universities across the nation and plans to branch out to 1,900 schools next year, according to Kopko...
...glibly bid adieu to the sweet taste of Toscanini’s homemade ice cream and pleasant old-world-meets-new-world charm, and Gnomon Copy’s $2 per page fax price and über-convenient coursepacks. And we eagerly await the entrance of a branch of, say, TD Banknorth, the nearest location of which is inconveniently in Waltham...
...money is going, it is impossible for students to know. McLoughlin, who is only the messenger of bad news, gave no explanation for the tax, and at the time that this editorial went to press we are unaware of any student group that has received any explanation from any branch of the University. For students groups, the uncertainty associated with the new diktat can be paralyzing. Many student groups depend heavily on gift account contributions for their source of funding. The Harvard College in Asia Project (HCAP), for example, derives 35 percent of its budget from donations to its gift...