Word: georgetown
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...Obama] has thrown out the baby along with the waterboard." More generally, some veterans say that the rules of the war on terrorism in the Obama era are no longer clear. "It's very much in flux," says Paul Pillar, a former top agency official who now teaches at Georgetown University. "So much is unresolved - like the various habeas cases involving Gitmo detainees. There are lots of shoes yet to drop...
...same crew the Crimson downed by just under a second last weekend. Princeton is coming off a 19.6 second demolition of Penn last weekend, the 11th consecutive regular season win for Old Nassau’s varsity eight. Yale, meanwhile, has won every race since a loss to Georgetown on April 5th. While it is difficult to draw conclusions from the week-to-week results as lineups are shuffled and kinks ironed out before Sprints, there is little doubt that the three crews will be well-matched. “Any of the three boats are probably capable of winning...
...President almost seemed apologetic. "This may be a slightly longer speech than I usually give," he told his audience at Georgetown University on April 14. "This is going to be prose and not poetry." What followed, as promised, was not poetry. Barack Obama doesn't do much poetry anymore. But in prose that was spare and clear and compelling, the President proceeded to describe how his Administration had responded to the financial crisis, the overriding challenge of his first 100 days in office. He had covered this ground before, nearly as well, in his budget message to Congress...
...travels at home and overseas - Wall Street's role in launching the financial crisis, for example - has annoyed Bush stalwarts, but it has opened the door for a new, cooperative foreign policy that is as dramatic a break from the past as the domestic initiatives Obama described in his Georgetown speech...
...route over which Kim trafficked refugees runs from North Korea, through China and four other countries where the refugees are not officially recognized, to Thailand, which is currently the only country of the six that has opened its borders to North Korean refugees. Now an MBA student at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, Kim is also the founder of Crossing Borders Ministries, a non-governmental organization dedicated to assisting North Korean refugees in China. “For Law School students, we want to hear about the plight of refugees and the legal system, but it?...