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...should we be concerned if human rights abuses are so widespread? Biscet’s role model, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once told us: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” This rings especially true when the abuses are occurring only 90 miles from our shores...
Indeed, the model of a research university is based on the idea that students will learn more when they learn from those who are pushing the boundaries of a field. When the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) was created in 1872, University President Charles W. Eliot argued to skeptics worried that graduate studies would dilute undergraduate education that the GSAS would actually strengthen the College. Only “if [professors] have to teach graduate students as well as undergraduates,” he argued, would they “regard their subjects as infinite, and keep...
...undergraduate, Chen was mainly involved with Harvard Model Congress and became the organization’s co-president. He also served as an Undergraduate Council representative for Currier House...
...Fort Dix case shows that it is indeed an important prototype. Six years after 9/11, the U.S. government has begun to settle on a strategy for finding and stopping potential homegrown terrorists before they strike. Fort Dix offers a case study of this new and sometimes precarious method. The model is called pre-emptive prosecution, and like other pre-emptive strikes of late, it is risky. It means relying on often unreliable informants to infiltrate insular communities, and it means making arrests before anything close to a terrorist attack actually happens. The process sometimes ends with a trial...
...them to look into the eyes of the informant and the defendants and decide who is telling the truth." Early next year, the Fort Dix defendants will have their chance. It will be as much a trial of their intent as it is of the government's new model - and of the informant Omar, who is expected to testify in depth...