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...According to evidence the Canadian Security Intelligence Service filed at Federal Court, Hampel, apparently aged 40, obtained three successive Canadian passports over seven years, the last one in 2002 after security had ostensibly been strengthened. The number on his 1971 Ontario birth certificate belonged to someone else, a legitimate citizen, the evidence said. His real identity has not been revealed; a Globe and Mail headline dubbed Hampel "The Man of Mystery on Docket DES-3-06." Even the landlord of his basement apartment could not remember him. The court summary of evidence said only that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service...
...Applied Science. Over the period from 1999 to 2006, the number of applicants to Harvard increased more than threefold, and the number of admitted students nearly doubled. The study also examined the number of doctorates given to specific demographic groups including “women, non-U.S. citizens, U.S. citizen Asians, and underrepresented minorities.” All of these groups had record-breaking numbers of doctorates awarded in 2005. Non-U.S. citizens earned 41.2 percent of doctorates, while only 4 percent went to Asian-Americans who are U.S. citizens. Women received 45.1 percent of all doctorates awarded...
Cambridge citizen Roy Bercaw criticized the report for only addressing trans fats in restaurants, not in packaged foods...
...awards serve as “a bridge between citizen activism and electoral politics,” he said...
...each of these separate events, and it’s not police brutishness or the unsurprising frequency of “foreign” victims’ names. More significant is the proliferation of cheap camera technology in tandem with aggregation sites like YouTube.com, which has enabled the average citizen to play the role of reporter. Describing events from a witness box is one thing, but the accuracy and clarity of video is a likely trump card in the hands of the victim, especially when hundreds of thousands of people have seen and been affected by the video?...