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...Madrid bombings, Spaniards are ready to break that silence. And the Valley of the Fallen is one of the places where their voices echo loudest. "The 'pact of silence' was necessary for the transition to democracy," says José María Pedreño, president of Forum for Memory, an organization dedicated to identifying killed or missing opponents of Franco. "But it meant that our democracy was fundamentally flawed, resting on the impunity of Franco's regime. It had to change." Commissioned by and with design input from Franco, the Valley of the Fallen was built at least...
Greenfield is the president of the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of 38 law schools and law faculties that filed suit against the Pentagon to halt enforcement of the Solomon Amendment. Harvard is not a member of the coalition, but the University did sign a friend-of-the-court brief in September backing FAIR...
Three distinguished lawyers debated the legality of counter-terrorism measures yesterday as part of the Dean’s Forum series at the Harvard Law School (HLS) moderated by HLS Dean Elena Kagan. During the discussion, entitled “Executive Power in an Age of Terrorism,” HLS alum Bradford A. Berenson argued in favor of controversial methods of combating terrorism. The former associate counsel to President George W. Bush said that measures such as indefinite detainment of suspected terrorists, military commissions, and even the use of torture were appropriate in extreme cases. “[September...
...greater freedom of choice in course selection. Designed as an improvement on the fragmented Core Curriculum, the new recommendations reduce requirements to three general areas—Arts and Humanities, Study of Societies, and Science and Technology. Yet as the report undergoes further debate in faculty meetings and student forums in coming weeks, questions remain about the practical application of its recommendations. “The Committee has done a good job of laying out an argument for a broad distribution requirement,” Phillips Professor of Early American History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote in an e-mail...
...recruiting [minority students] because they’re individuals? Or because they’re a member of a community?” Abdallah asked the student leaders. Students also discussed the participation of women in campus politics. The Radcliffe Union of Students decided to participate in the forum “because we’re concerned with the amount of organizations on campus that are run by men,” said Tatiana H. Chaterji ’08, the group’s women’s center coordinator. Brittani Head ’06, communications director...