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...school students today are attempting to learn on their own what it takes to get in. The same movement that drives the multi-million dollar test-prep takes a more personal form in websites like CollegeConfidential.com. For these students, CollegeConfidential.com is not only a source for information, but a forum for therapy...
...time to get a grip. According to a 2003 Pew Forum poll, 42 percent of Americans believe that homosexuality “is just the way that some people prefer to live,” in what is an insidiously easy assumption to make. Haggard’s case, making no excuses for his behavior, is a telling example of precisely why such a claim, widespread as it is, stretches the imagination to no end. When a pious man with everything to lose tries to deny his true nature, yet still fails—and is forced into deception...
Overall, “Borat” provides a relatively unthreatening forum for expressing people’s exasperation and anxiety about the West’s encounters with Islam. But it does so in an oblique way. We can laugh at Borat’s ridiculous anti-Semitism, without having to think about Ahmadinejad’s ominous statement that Israel should be “wiped...
Jackson said it was possible the forum could be scheduled for a later date...
...professor who litigated this summer’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court case ruling that military commissions for Guantanamo Bay detainees violate Geneva Convention prohibitions lauded that decision at the Harvard Law Review’s annual Supreme Court Forum yesterday. Georgetown University law professor Neal K. Katyal, a former Justice Department official, said in his address yesterday that the central issue in the case was whether presidents must follow the laws that govern warfare. “This case is not just on military commissions alone,” Katyal said. “The central premise is that...