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...turn, could lead to slipping standards if most diners are too intimidated to complain - and the rest are too rich to care. Dedicated foodies who have worked to pay their way through the University of the Good Life are being priced out of the market. There's an argument, too, for starting the learning process on the nursery slopes of fine cuisine. Many novices get too dizzy from price-altitude sickness to enjoy their first top meal. Yet it's not always easy to know where to start. You can eat dreadful food in Paris for not that much less...
...professors also argued that the AUMF’s authorization of spying was implicit at best, while the 1987 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) explicitly prohibits any domestic spying except for 15 days following a declaration of war. “First, and most importantly, [Justice’s] argument rests on an unstated general ‘implication’ from the AUMF that directly contradicts express and specific language in FISA,” the professors wrote. “Specific and ‘carefully drawn’ statutes prevail over general statutes where there...
Contrary to the Crimson's argument, documents in the custody of the HUPD do not become "public records" simply because some of the HUPD officers have been appointed "special" State police officers under G.L. c. 22C, § 63. This statute provides that the colonel of the department of State police (colonel), at the request of an officer of an educational institution, may appoint employees of such institution as special State police officers. See G.L. c. 22C, § 63. The powers conferred on employees who are so appointed are, by statute, far less extensive than the powers of regular police officers...
...Bush says, but his critics charge that the price of a war to spread freedom abroad has meant restricting it here at home. This is not just a matter of obvious and necessary measures to track bad guys and stop them. It includes the freedom to even have this argument...
...government. Some well-known philosophers, like John Locke and the late Harvard professor Robert Nozick, are deontological libertarians.Most libertarians, like the late philosopher Friedrich A. Hayek, humorist Dave Barry, journalist John Stossel, and actor Clint Eastwood, evade such easy categorization. They find value in both lines of argument for libertarianism.HLF welcomes all shades of libertarians and, more generally, all students who are interested in—either because they’re in favor of, or because they’re opposed to—any kind of libertarianism. Plans for future activities include both lectures on economics as well...