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...passed with benign intent. The independent counsel act was designed to facilitate the appointment of impartial special prosecutors. The Inspector General Act was designed to protect patriotic whistle-blowers who seek to reveal malversation in government. But what these laws have in fact done is to create a fourth branch of government--powerful, unaccountable and wonderfully designed to make it hard to recruit people for public service and easy to intimidate them once they are serving. A priority for the 106th Congress should be the dismemberment of these institutional manifestations of our prosecutorial culture. Abolishing the fourth branch of government...
...Harvard branch of the Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1921 with the assistance of a Mr. W--the organizer of the Chicago chapter and an imperial officer in the Klan--and an unidentified...
...telegram or taking any measures to purge the campus of Klan activity. Surprisingly, neither do the Harvard archives show record of the supposed explosion of Klan activity ever occurring. Whether this is a result of what was, according to an unidentified Crimson reporter, "division in the Harvard branch [of the Klan] itself" or the selective record keeping of the University remains a mystery...
...PECASE and over 300 Career [award] winners, I was the only social scientist," said Ambady. She will receive a five-year grant of $500,000, which she said she plans to use to extend her NSF research and to branch...
...says club membership is tailored to individual interests, noting that "there are different parts of the club. Depending on your interests, you can make costumes, and learn about medieval gaming like archery and fencing." A subsidiary of an international SCA network, the dozen or so members of the Harvard branch are invited monthly to a large-scale social event hosting the anachronistically inclined from all over the greater Boston area. E-mail sca@hcs.harvard.edu for more info...