as I was leaving your class and checking my messages, I got one from my sister, informing me that our brother, [name] had been killed in Basra.
This just popped into my mailbox:
Students who changed their airline flights due to changes in the exam schedule for the fall semester will be reimbursed for any fees assessed by the airlines for the ticket change. The reimbursement will be in the form of a credit towards the spring semester. Read the detailed procedures to receive a reimbursement.
At lunch today there was no fortune in my fortune cookie. Does this mean I have no future?
Todays torture news:
United States runs a secret network of torture facilities, including some in formerly Communist countries (said on good authority to be Poland, Romania).
A a top-level al-Qaida operative escaped from a maximum-security facility in Afghanistan…and a result cant be called to testify against the US soldiers who are accused of abusing him.
Excuse me now, I have to go teach students about the rule of law.
Who would have guessed that we have an opposition party in the US? Yet, all of a sudden — now that Bush appears so very very weak — all of a sudden it appears that we do: TPMCafe || Power Shifts. And see the videos here and here.
Earlier post: Spontaneous Generation Observed in Nature (I).
In what can only be understood as a sign of their fabulous good taste, the clever folks at Prawsblog have persuaded my collegue Steve Vladeck to guest blog for them “for the next few weeks”.
See, for example, his first post for them, What if the war on terrorism never ends?.
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