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...have bought. If the misuse documented in the Justice IG report stems from incompetence, Americans may not be getting the security they bargain for in sacrificing their civil liberties. It's also possible the Justice IG may yet find among the abused Patriot Act powers examples of an FBI agent stalking his girlfriend or doing a favor for a political operative friend. Fine is still preparing a report on the illegal use of "exigent letters" in unauthorized demands for records from business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Americans Care About Big Brother? | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

...with every scene. Sensitive Harry believes that if he were to leave Pat, she would suffer immensely. “I can’t stand to see anyone suffer,” he says. So he decides to kill her. Unfortunately, Cooper seems more like a former CIA agent embarking on a freelance operation than a troubled husband who is about to assassinate his beloved wife of two decades. The scenes in which Harry plans the murder are suspenseful and gripping, but fail to provide an insightful glimpse into the soul of a disillusioned married man. The plot twist...

Author: By Roy Cohen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Married Life | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...Students tend to think of [the Ad Board] as the court where they will be tried and sentenced for serious offenses,” Lewis writes in Excellence Without a Soul. “For most of its history, however, it has seen itself as Harvard’s agent of practical moral education...

Author: By Nicole G. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tough Love | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

...supposed weapons of mass destruction and the need for a U.S. invasion to eliminate the world of this “mass murderer” who according President George Bush had “the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.” There were daily statements from the White House to prepare the American public for this war. To support the claim that Saddam Hussein had WMDs the Kurdish chemical weapons episode of 1988 was brought up again and again fifteen years later. Interestingly, the US blamed Iran...

Author: By Samad Khurram | Title: Repeating Is Believing | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

What I and all of us here see is the Pakistani nation peacefully transferring power from President Musharraf to the elected representatives of the nation. And President Musharraf, whose policies I support as a young Pakistani, is an active agent in this civilized and peaceful process of change...

Author: By Ahmed Quraishi | Title: Musharraf Is Not a Dictator | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

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