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...main result of the conflict is a bill sponsored by Rep. Rachel Kaprielian (D-Watertown) that would allow a city to collect property taxes when a non-profit purchases more than 2.5 percent of the tax base. The bill would discourage the founding of large charitable institutions in Massachusetts or the expansion of old ones, and all in all it’s a terrible idea. What the state government should be considering instead is a bill that would reimburse municipalities for the losses that large tax-exempt institutions create. That way, the reward for charitable work is preserved without...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Dead Hand of Harvard | 12/4/2001 | See Source »

Some of the most valuable residue of the Taliban collapse in Afghanistan may turn out to be paper. FBI, CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency officials have quietly mounted a crash intelligence project to collect and analyze attendance rosters, pay ledgers, letters from home and other paperwork in bombed-out al-Qaeda training camps. From these and other sources, counterterror specialists are racing to assemble a master list of thousands of radical jihadists who studied and bonded at the camps, then scattered around the globe to form "sleeper cells." "A lot of documents have been left behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spy Watch: Al-Qaeda's Paper Trail | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

After missing two free throws while the Crimson clung to a two-point lead late in the fourth quarter, Gellert swooped in from the foul line to collect his own rebound. Falling out of bounds, Gellert tossed a desperate pass behind his back and into the arms of junior Pat Harvey. Harvey nailed the open three-pointer to seal a 68-61 win for the Crimson at Lavietes Pavilion...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hoops Tops Huskies, 68-61 | 11/28/2001 | See Source »

...deal does set up an oversight committee of three tech experts chosen jointly by Microsoft and Justice. But the trio is pretty toothless: it can't even collect evidence for potential future court cases. University of Chicago law professor Randall Picker, who describes the deal as "within the realm of reasonableness," also predicts it will trigger a whole new set of lawsuits. "I fear Microsoft's corporate culture hasn't changed," says Ohio's Montgomery, "but I'm willing to give it a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gates And The States | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...biggest drawback to implementing Datalink is setting up the hardware. It would mean building a ground station that could discriminate and collect data from every plane in the air. That would require a fairly complex system - and getting it in place would be a fairly laborious process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building a Better Black Box | 11/14/2001 | See Source »

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