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...National security letters permit the executive branch to seek records about people in terrorism and spy investigations without a judge's approval or grand jury subpoena...
...Within six or seven minutes there were two doctors, three defibrillators and an emergency medical staff,” said HBS Executive Director of Marketing and Communications David R. Lampe. An Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officer helped a team including two physicians from the HBS branch of Harvard University Health Services (UHS), a campus security officer, and Mt. Auburn Hospital emergency medical personnel. Andrew F. O’Brien, chief of operations at HBS, was the first on the scene according to the victim, who declined to be identified. He arrived 90 seconds after the professor fell down. Because...
...future as 2057. Up until now Harvard has provided information to residents project by project, the latest an architect’s rendition of the four-building science complex to house stem cell research. At Monday’s Harvard-Allston Task Force meeting at the Honan-Allston Branch Library, Harvard officials said the master plan would be available on the Web site of the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) by the end of this week. But some in the crowd of nearly 100 still weren’t pleased with the information Harvard plans to provide. Harvard-Allston Task Force...
...they're in charge, Democrats are still talking the talk. This week, they are hammering away at Bush ahead of his Iraq speech while planning a resolution opposing his proposed troop increase in the war. Today incoming Judiciary chairman Patrick Leahy held hearings on what he says are executive branch infringements on Americans' privacy. And on Thursday Leahy will have attorney general Alberto Gonzales appear before his panel for a wide-ranging oversight hearing, which the committee's spokesperson says will dig into the civil liberties issues Democrats raised in the campaign...
...doing his part. In addition to the hearings, he and the ranking minority leader, Arlen Specter, have introduced a bill that would roll back Bush's habeas-overriding powers. Leahy, Wisconsin's Russ Feingold, and New Hampshire conservative John Sununu today will introduce a bill that would require executive branch agencies regularly to report on data mining efforts. On the record, Harry Reid's office is nominally supportive of these efforts. "The new Congress will review all aspects of the war on terror to see what improvements are needed," says Reid spokesman, Jim Manley...