The James Logan Courier

By William Douglas and Carol Rosenberg
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday abandoned two key aspects of former President George W. Bush's policies on suspected terrorists, setting off wide debate on whether the move undercut the government's rationale for holding at least some of the men who are now detained at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba or amounted to nothing new.

In a court filing in Washington, the Justice Department dropped the term "enemy combatant" to refer to those being held in Guantanamo. It also said that the government's authority to continue to jail terrorist suspects would hinge on proving that they "authorized, committed or aided" the Sept. 11 attacks or that they "were part of or substantially supported" the Taliban or al-Qaida.

From wikipedia:
Sylvia Beach (March 14, 1887 – October 5, 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach in her father's parsonage in Baltimore, Maryland, was one of the leading expatriate figures in Paris between World War I and II.

Early life
Sylvia Beach was born on March 14, 1887, the second of three daughters of Sylvester Beach and Eleanor Thomazine Orbison. Although named Nancy after her grandmother Orbison she later decided to change her name to Sylvia. Her maternal grandparents were missionaries to India and her father, a Presbyterian minister, was decended from several generations of clergymen. When the girls were young the family lived in Baltimore and in Bridgewater, New Jersey. Then in 1901 the family moved to France when Sylvester Beach was appointed as assistant minister of the American Church in Paris and director of the American student center.


Learn more about Sylvia Beach, free from the Sylvia Beach Papers, from Princeton University.