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...James Duderstadt, UM president from 1988 to 1996, has argued for years that it is a misnomer to call schools like the University of Michigan "state universities." The state's annual contribution to the school's operating budget is now less than 6%, about half the share that California puts into its state schools and roughly the same level as Virginia. "The state is our smallest minority shareholder," says Duderstadt. (See TIME's special report on paying for college...
...influence an ongoing criminal investigation in return for help securing a committee chairmanship, her conduct not only violates federal law and House rules, but also her oath to uphold the Constitution." -Melanie Sloan, Executive Director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, on the allegations Harman faces. (Roll Call, April...
Representative Jane Harman, under scrutiny for allegedly pledging in a 2005 phone call to try and help two former officials of an Israeli lobbying group accused of conspiring to pass classified information, told TIME on Tuesday that she is not worried about her fate...
...almost a self-fulfilling prophecy: after all, it was Obama himself who last week ordered the release of four Bush Administration legal memos justifying interrogations that included waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other harsh methods. The documents - with their excruciating details largely intact, despite CIA Director Leon Panetta's call that more be blacked out - outraged partisans on both sides...
...eavesdropping on a lawmaker's call, she said, "It's been an abuse of power: selective leaking of very sensitive investigative material for political purposes is wrong." Harman said she didn't remember with whom she spoke but subsequently told NPR that she's sure the person was a U.S. citizen. Congressional Quarterly, which broke the story on Monday, described the person as an "Israeli agent...