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...back to Baghdad” is a request so ludicrous that it is almost comical. But that is exactly what the United States told Ph.D. candidate Omar al-Dewachi—a native Iraqi who has already undergone extensive background checks and been admitted to the U.S.—when he presented a Hussein-era passport. We fully support policies designed to increase national security and the rigid rules that come with them, but for cases as unusual as al-Dewachi’s—going back to Baghdad is not something a rational person would choose...
...second consecutive week, the Cambridge City Council broke into fierce debate over one councillor’s request to alter the membership of its Neighborhood Safety Committee, a task force charged with addressing crime problems following a rise in robberies and assaults during the summer of 2006. However, much of the furor surrounded the Cambridge Chronicle, a local newspaper that has recently published several editorials criticizing the management of Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 in forming the Committee. During last week’s meeting, Councillor E. Denise Simmons put forth a resolution that would have increased...
...heavy guilt." Mohnhaupt may be paroled next month, and her prison warden said her psychological assessment showed no risk of "backsliding." Klar is not eligible for parole until 2009, but he has appealed for early release. "Of course, I have to acknowledge my guilt," he wrote in that 2003 request. "I understand the feelings of the victims and I regret the suffering of these people." German President Horst Köhler is expected to decide on the appeal next month...
...spend their last two years in college thinking about video games. But for Ben S. Decker ’08, his special concentration in “Interactive Media” requires it. Decker, a former psychology concentrator, learned over winter break that his unusual plan of study request would be granted. “Let’s not beat around the bush... my intention is to study video games,” his application read. Decker’s concentration in “ludology”—the study of video games from...
...looking extremely frustrated, Army prosecutor Capt Scott Van Sweringen asked for the mistrial after Judge Head, having personally questioned Watada about the stipulation, ruled that he was going to reject the agreement and tell the jurors that is should be disregarded. The judge himself seemed to urge a mistrial request at that point, saying of his direction to the jurors: "How do you un-ring that bell...