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...civilian court, claiming his detention was illegal under Title 18, Section 4001(a) of the U.S. Code. Known as the “Non-Detention Act,” Section 4001(a) states, “No citizen shall be imprisoned or otherwise detained by the United States except pursuant to an Act of Congress.” According to the Second Court, Bush lacked such “congressional authorization,” since Congress never officially declared war after Sept. 11 (as it did against Nazi Germany after Pearl Harbor). Nor did the administration have constitutional authority...
...real movement in and out of the shuttered complex is that of the resident abbot?a friend of Li's, according to local guide Fu Rongguang?who drives around the countryside in a chauffeured black Cadillac. To the rest of the world, the buddha might as well not exist?except that it can be plainly seen from miles away...
...TORONTO The Serial Diners Club has but one laudable goal: working through the restaurant listings in the local Yellow Pages (except for venues "playing music at volume level 11"). The club, which offers free membership, meets weekly and has so far eaten its way through to the letter...
...Individual concentration advisers and student-faculty dinners, two of the report’s proposals, are both steps in the right direction, serving to personalize what can be a highly impersonal academic experience. The review should go even further and wean the responsibility of advising away from graduate students except the few who possess an intimate knowledge of the Harvard undergraduate experience...
...don’t mind the reference to me-—it’s mostly accurate, except for the pointed reference to failure. I think “unhappiness” was the operative word which was clear to me and the condition which the book was to address and improve...