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The Guantanamo dilemma
When he ran for president, Barack Obama laid out the case against the detention of inmates at Guantanamo Bay: "It is expensive. It is inefficient. It hurts us in terms of our international standing. It lessens cooperation with our allies on...
Tags: Politics, Al-Qaeda, American Civil Liberties Union, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress
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Start snitching: the public's role in fighting terrorism
The arrest of three friends of the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing reminds us of the consequences of withholding information from investigators, lying or being an accessory after the fact for a friend or loved one. In other words, if...
Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Crime, Law and Justice, Times Square, FBI
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Maybe Majid Khan rates a stateside prison cell
As a teenager in the mid-1990s, he moved with his parents to the United States from Pakistan. The family sought and received political asylum. They settled in Baltimore County and operated a gas station. The boy attended Owings Mills High School. His...Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Al-Qaeda, Trials, Barack Obama, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
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Parents get solace through scholarship tribute to son
It is their way of remembering, of keeping their son's legacy alive. In what has become an annual rite of spring, Buzz and Madeline Smith made their way to the guidance office of Taravella High in Coral Springs last month. For a few hours, they...Tags: University of Florida, Coral Springs, Human Interest, University of Central Florida, Culture
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Editorial: Make uncovering Benghazi truth a bipartisan mission
"A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al-Qaida is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead." —President Barack Obama to the Democratic National Convention, Sept. 6, 2012. Five nights after that speech, scores of attackers...Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Defense, United Nations, Christopher Stevens
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Students study stereotypes
South Bend Tribune CorrespondentSOUTH BEND -- Group presentations from two of University of Notre Dame professor Cyarina Johnson-Roullier’s English classes transformed the Civil Rights Heritage Center recently into a showcase of fighting stereotypes. The former segregated...Tags: Religion and Belief, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), University of Notre Dame, Beyonce, Separation of Church and State
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Bringing drones out of the shadows
The use of unmanned aircraft to kill suspected terrorists, a practice that has dramatically escalated during the Obama administration, is receiving fresh and welcome scrutiny in Congress and elsewhere even as the number of drone strikes seems to be on the...
Tags: Georgetown, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Congress, Yemen, University of Oxford
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The changing of the guard
Daily American Staff WriterANNVILLE — American involvement in the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts could be drawing to a close, but the National Guard may never be the same. In the 10 years since the initial siege of Baghdad, the role of guardsmen and women has shifted...Tags: Berlin Wall's Fall (1989), Religion and Belief, Employment, U.S. Department of Defense, Vietnam
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Letters: Benghazi and partisanship
Re "Lawmakers hear official's account of Benghazi events," May 8 After failing to connect President Obama to any real scandals, Republicans have resurrected the 8-month-old attack in Benghazi, Libya. This, while also taking a shot at Hillary Rodham...Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Darrell E Issa, Hillary Clinton, Benghazi
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New York's One World Trade Center spire finally goes up
New York City can once again claim to be home to the tallest building in the country, and the Western Hemisphere for that matter. On Friday, workers topped off the new One World Trade Center building with a spire making the structure 1,776 feet tall,...
Tags: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Politics, Government, Executive Branch, Career and Workplace
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Christopher Shinn's plays explore what victims do next
NEW YORK — David Mamet has his hustlers, Edward Albee his domestic warriors, Tony Kushner his brilliant self-flagellators. If playwright Christopher Shinn has a signature character, it is the manipulative victim — the half-sympathetic, half-...
Tags: New York University, Biology, Health Treatments, Goodman Theatre, Cancer
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In Theory: Are parts of Scripture outdated and in need of change?
It's not often that a Christian minister agrees with the New Atheist movement, but the Rev. Michael Dowd believes it's possible when it comes to what he calls the "idolatry of the written word." A self-described "New Theist" — one who "value[s]...Tags: Fossils, Baptist, Entertainment, Social Issues, Philosophy
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