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Undergraduates studying abroad in spring 2007 will be able to take their fall exams early—if their instructors approve—rather than having to lug their books overseas for in absentia exams.Registrar Barry S. Kane made the announcement at Wednesday’s Faculty Council meeting, emphasizing that the new rules were aimed at providing more flexibility as the College works to increase the number of undergraduates studying abroad.Under the registrar’s current policy, students abroad during exam period have to take their finals in their host country. This means that students whose spring semesters...
...wiretap program that basically repeats the revelations contained in Risen and Lichtblau's stories in the Times. But the book also argues that the NSA's eavesdropping policy shows the extent to which the war on terrorism has spurred the intelligence community to flout legal conventions at home and abroad. Risen's chief target is the CIA, where, he argues, institutional dysfunction and feckless leadership after 9/11 led to intelligence breakdowns that continue to haunt the U.S. Though much of State of War covers ground that is broadly familiar, the book is punctuated with a wealth of previously unreported tidbits...
...ordered the National Security Agency (NSA) to conduct electronic snooping on communications of various people, including U.S. citizens. That action is unequivocally contrary to the express and implied requirements of federal law that such surveillance of U.S. persons inside the U.S. (regardless of whether their communications are going abroad) must be preceded by a court order. General Michael Hayden, a former director of the NSA and now second in command at the new Directorate of National Intelligence, testified to precisely that point at a congressional hearing in April 2000. In response, the President and his defenders have fallen back...
...Because, according to a Rasmussen poll, 64% of Americans, a free and very sensible people, support eavesdropping on calls between suspected terrorists abroad and people in the U.S. Because even Democrats know that the once clandestine activities they denounce so floridly are the once obscure answer to the question everyone has been asking: How did Bush keep us safe...
...judge in Italy last year ordered 13 CIA operatives arrested after prosectors there said the CIA seized Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, an Egyptian imam, in Milan and sent him to Egypt, where he claims he was tortured. Although President Bush has said the U.S. seeks assurances that suspects sent abroad won't be tortured, CIA Director Porter Goss has acknowledged that "there's only so much...