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...with their children. He recommended that students take the initiative to meet the faculty, choose an exciting and inspirational program of study, and avoid being “fungible.” But Summers also fielded some difficult questions. One parent asked about the College’s constant request for donations, specifically referring to an opinion piece in the New York Times that questioned these practices at Yale. “Why does Harvard solicit parents for money when the endowment is so large?” he asked. Summers responded that potentially life-saving faculty research and students?...
...blogger and writer from Arizona named Russ Kick posted photographs of coffins containing the bodies of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and of Columbia astronauts. The military zealously guards images of service members in coffins, but Kick pried the photos free with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. "I read the news constantly," says Kick, "and when I see a story about the government refusing to release public documents, I automatically file an FOIA request for them." By April 23 the images had gone from Kick's blog, thememoryhole.org, to the front page of newspapers across the country...
...later phoned him and contradicted his recollection that she had expressed support for Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 case establishing the right to privacy that is considered a key underpinning of abortion rights. Strike two was Miers' response to the Judiciary Committee's questionnaire, which led to an unusual request for elaboration on eight of her 28 answers. Even Republicans griped that her responses were so elliptical as to be disrespectful. "The alienation," says Specter's friend, "is very real...
...gaunt but defiant Hussein refused even to acknowledge his name, mocking court officials as the puppets of U.S. "aggressors" and telling the chief judge, "I am not going to answer to this so-called court." The intense emotion surrounding the trial?now adjourned until Nov. 28 at the request of the defense?was made evident a day after the trial's start, when a lawyer for one of Saddam's co-defendants was abducted and shot to death by as-yet-unknown assailants...
...Baghdad. Before the eyes of many stunned Iraqis who were watching on television, a gaunt but defiant Hussein refused even to acknowledge his name, declaring, "I am not going to answer to this so-called court." The intense emotion surrounding the trial--now adjourned until Nov. 28 at the request of the defense, which wanted more time to prepare--was made evident a day after the trial's start, when a lawyer for one of Saddam's co-defendants was abducted by as-yet-unknown assailants. He was later found shot to death...