Word: callouses
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...bill that will reinstate those standards. The details of the bill will be released tomorrow, but it has become very clear over the past 18 months that the PATRIOT Act has eroded far more constitutional privacy controls than appropriate. We have already witnessed the Bush administration’s callous disregard for individual civil liberties; in the fall, we learned of the Pentagon’s proposed plans for “Total Information Awareness,” a program that aims to gather personal electronic information including credit card and bank statements, travel plans and e-mail?...
Polling numbers show that Silber has managed, over the last several months, to split the Democratic party into two factions. Many liberals abandoned the candidate for his callous comments on working mothers, nursing-home residents and welfare recipients, while social conservatives supported the candidate for his frank approach to fiscal management...
...participates in prevention education or uses the University’s resources after being assaulted will see the administration’s commitment to student safety and well-being. If the administration fails to implement them promptly and extensively, then Harvard’s administration will have proven itself callous to student needs to the point of disregarding their safety, disregarding the reality that CASV often repeats—that “rape happens at Harvard...
While the Bush administration has shown a callous attitude towards the rights of Iraqi nationals, another new program threatens the privacy of all Americans. Called “Total Information Awareness,” this Pentagon-initiated program proposes to gather personal electronic information including credit card and bank statements, travel plans and e-mail, without a warrant. Total Information Awareness would infringe on the Constitutional right to privacy—foreshadowing a world reminiscent of the chilling vision George Orwell described in 1984. Without a warrant, the government should not be privy to personal information...
...hateful person should be allowed to speak here as an invited guest of the University? Would you really think that withdrawing the privilege (not right) of speaking here with the imprimatur of the University infringes on free speech rights? Would you not see the ugly racism in his callous disregard for the lives of an entire class of African-Americans, whatever their alleged misdeeds? I, for one, am certain that you would protest the invitation to such a person, and correctly...