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Little did the American public or Congress know, but a March 2004 memo circulated by the Justice Department was already trying to establish a legal basis for non-Iraqi prisoners seized in Iraq to be secretly transported out of the country, in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions. According to the Washington Post, the Central Intelligence Agency removed a dozen non-Iraqis over the past 18 months in this...
Mahan said that one of his goals for the rest of his term as president would be to establish a permanent solution to handling an increased number of student group grant applications, which has sky-rocketed since the council expanded the Grant Fund with money raised through this semester’s termbill fee hike...
...idea that we inherit a spirituality gene from the person we were in a previous life. Smaller than an ordinary gene, it combines with two larger physical genes we inherit from our parents, and together they shape our physical and spiritual profile. Says Thurman: "The spiritual gene helps establish a general trust in the universe, a sense of openness and generosity." Buddhists, he adds, would find Hamer's possible discovery "amusing...
Hitting only .045 and passing inefficiently in the deciding game, Harvard found it difficult to establish a rhythm. The Tigers jumped out to a quick 4-1 lead and held it the rest...
...moral responsibility set forth by the UN Genocide Convention, much of the blame falls on Africa itself. The African Union has committed to sending military observers next week to the region, but their diplomatic response has been slower than that of the U.S. They must take this opportunity to establish Pan-Africanism as the prevailing doctrine of governance in the continent and demonstrate a bold commitment to the protection of black people’s human rights in the form of military force. Africans within the U.S., specifically African students, should be using their opportunity as U.S. citizens or residents...