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...Surveillance Act (FISA) requires it or the FBI to seek a special court warrant. The FISA court received 10,617 such applications from 1995 to 2004 and approved all but four of them. And under the Patriot Act, if the FBI certifies that it has grounds, it may also collect more information, such as the customer's name, address and billing information. Last year the FBI issued 9,254 such orders, known as National Security Letters, to obtain information about 3,501 people from banks and phone, Internet and credit-card companies...
...Wagoner since he will soon have bigger issues to face: reaching a deal with the U.A.W. for a master contract to replace the one expiring in September 2007. Under the current contract, GM can close factories but can't lay off workers; they go into a "jobs bank" and collect wages and benefits even if they sit around and play cards. Wall Street estimates the program costs $600 million a year. "Clearly, it's an area of uncompetitiveness," Wagoner says. It's sure to be on the agenda. So too will GM's unhealthy U.S. health-care bill: $5.3 billion...
Kolic’s mouth was visibly blue when he came to the front of the room to collect his award. Kolic, rocking sandals with jeans and a sharp grey suit, later explained that he had been enjoying the blue chocolate fountain the Dems had ordered for the party...
...formidable past record of exhibiting artists like Edvard Munch, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein early in their careers. Though it was not able to collect in the past, the museum will now be able to purchase works from the next generation of rising artists featured in future exhibitions...
...most of my online friendships fizzled out (and I realized that enduring bonds cannot begin via instant messenger). Our summer Facebooking madness was born of our pre-college anxiety. We faced the departure from everything that was familiar and the plunge into the unknowns of Harvard. The urge to collect friends was an effect of the desire for community, so as to belong, and not face Harvard alone. Prefrosh, don’t make the mistake I made. There’ll be plenty of time for face-to-face contact during Freshman Week—a period in which...