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...charge is frivolous--the list is almost entirely made up of faceless bureaucrats--the principles at stake are not. What makes this more than just another inside-the-Beltway imbroglio is the fear that the Clinton White House may have misused the FBI just months after the Administration, in the wake of the travel-office scandal, swore such a thing would never happen again. When a President harnesses the power of America's premier law-enforcement agency to political ends, he rides roughshod over the Constitution and revisits the bad old days of J. Edgar Hoover. Is this what Clinton...
...clearing in North Vietnam, just across the Laotian border. The team, code named Hadley, was supposed to gather intelligence on supply convoys traveling the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but within a day North Vietnamese soldiers began rounding up the commandos. An iron shackle was secured to Pham with a stake driven through the flesh of his leg, and he was taken north. Once in prison, he spent hours hanging upside down in the sun with his jaw held shut by a muzzle. Rats and cockroaches nibbled at the torn flesh on his leg as he spent his nights...
Part of my advising prospective and new students has been to encourage their participation in campus activities. By staying informed and involved, we all have a stake in the community and will strive to make it a more cohesive, humane place to live...
Students say the purpose of the board is to give many different communities a stake in the future of public service at Harvard...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Supreme Court heard arguments examining the constitutionality of a new law limiting many death-row prisoners to one appeal in federal court. At stake for the court is whether Congress can limit its ability to review death-row appeals. The case of convicted murder Ellis Wayne Felker is the first test of a federal law passed in April that requires inmates who have lost their first federal appeal to seek permission from a three-judge appellate court to file a second. Georgia death-row prisoner Felker brought his case to the Supreme Court despite an appellate court...