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Alumni of Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program (HRP) gathered in honor of its 20th anniversary over the weekend to discuss the current state of human rights...
...This event is meant to bring graduates of the program back to discuss pressing issues in human rights today,” said HRP Associate Director James L. Cavallaro. “It is not meant as a chance to pat ourselves on the back, but as a chance to evaluate what have been the major changes in human rights...
...were in the thick of things. His men are mostly in their twenties, unemployed and poorly educated, some of them former drug addicts who've gone straight under the influence of their new beliefs. They helped destroy two armored personnel carriers. But Jamal doesn't want to discuss in detail the Wahhabi's tactics. "The less you say, the longer you live," he remarks. He does hint at a highly secretive, tightly compartmentalized organization. "A man comes from time to time and passes on instructions," he says. The Wahhabis and the Maskhadov wing of the resistance tolerate, help and protect...
...role. "Barroso has to draw the consequences, and if he doesn't we'll vote against this Commission," says Martin Schulz, leader of the Socialist Group, the body's second largest. Will it come to that? This week Barroso meets with party presidents at the European Parliament to discuss the impasse. No solution is perfect, but if Barroso tries to stand firm he risks a painful lesson in parliamentary wrath...
...contempt of court on Wednesday, for the second time, for refusing to testify. (Cooper?s first contempt citation was rescinded when he gave limited information to prosecutors after a source, Lewis I. ?Scooter? Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, authorized him and several other journalists to discuss their confidential conversations.) Miller was found in contempt last week. She and Cooper, citing the need for journalists to be able to protect their sources, are appealing the rulings jointly, but no decision is expected from the appeals court until mid-to-late November. They could each face...