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...President of the United States. Bush is perhaps the worst President we have ever had or, hopefully, will ever have. The first election, in 2000, was engineered, jockeyed and ultimately stolen. The second, in 2004, was actually won by Bush. To cite the phrase that he himself found so difficult to utter: Fooled us once, shame on them. But the second time around, shame on us. W. should be required viewing in every political-science class in the country. Linda Calcagno Melchione, EASTON, MASS...
...Professor of Eonomics Terry B. Long, who has been working with H&R Block on the FAFSA Simplification Study, says, “High levels of debt are deterring people from going to college at all.” She adds that people in the United States find it difficult to distinguish between good and bad types of debt. Some underestimate the benefits of a college education, and others have no idea of the burden they will carry until they?...
...must, even in these difficult times, keep our eye on this priority and make choices that continue to enable us to advance our highest priorities University-wide and in individual schools,” Faust said, adding that hiking up the tuition is not a solution to closing the gaps in the budget...
...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. "I don't actually see obvious answers...
...legal limbo many Guantánamo detainees have endured for years still poses significant problems. That is because the primary purpose of detaining these people was not to stage trials but rather to gain usable intelligence through interrogation. Forming proper criminal cases at this point would be difficult...