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...successfully watered down the legislation establishing the commission, denying it the right to subpoena witnesses, conduct searches or even demand access to official documents. With the commission due to release a final report by Oct. 16, it now seems the body has been less than thorough even within its purview. It investigated only 83 cases out of hundreds of unexplained deaths because many of the victims' families were suspicious or too discouraged after years of failing to get answers. It solved only 34. "Too many cases were left unsolved," admits commission president Hang Sang Beom. "This is a blow against...
...often the way with the Bush Administration, however, Washington is making the worst of a good case. There are sound reasons for exempting American troops and officials from the ICC's purview. In the world today, the U.S. is uniquely powerful, with a near monopoly on the ability to project force globally. American power is much in demand. From the Balkans to the border between North and South Korea, American armed forces maintain a degree of stability in places that would otherwise be flash points. But this very ubiquity of American power has bred a natural resentment. The Bush Administration...
...reiterating the point proponents of the merger had made all along—Radcliffe had not been functioning as a college for many years, but as long as it retained its title, Harvard could pretend that final clubs, date rape, and other concerns were under Radcliffe’s purview...
...they could be spun off as degree-granting committees—and eventually as their own independent departments. Such departments could use the Department of Afro-American Studies as an excellent model for the sorts of programs they should try to offer in each of the ethnicities under their purview...
...only issues that directly affect students fall under the council’s purview, there is little to define a council conservative from a council liberal...