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...faithfully recited the next day’s lunch and dinner menus. And when thanked, the helpful program replied, “I’m glad to help. :-)” After repeated inquiries from The Crimson, the program ceased to spit back computerized responses and agreed to conduct an instant-message interview—but not to divulge his or her name. The creator, who conceived of the idea after learning about Shuttleboybot, wrote the script for YummyFoodBot in a programming language called Perl. The YummyFoodBot program looks for patterns in the messages that it receives. For more...
...absence of Congressional action,” he cannot act contrary to the law when Congress has enacted a specific statute to address the issue. “To say that the President has inherent authority does not mean that his authority is exclusive, or that his conduct is not subject to statutory regulations,” the professors wrote, citing the Supreme Court invalidation of President Truman’s seizure of steel mills as an example. The professors also asserted that domestic spying “raises serious questions” under the Fourth Amendment, concluding that FISA...
...special [S]tate employee" or "special county employee" for purposes of the Massachusetts conflict of interest statute, G.L. c. 268A, § 1, and an HUPD officer who has been appointed as a "special State police officer" or a deputy sheriff, is unpersuasive. "General Laws c. 268A regulates the conduct of State, county, and municipal employees relating to the performance of their official duties." Edgartown v. State Ethics Comm'n, 391 Mass. 83, 84 (1984). It was "enacted as part of 'comprehensive legislation ... [to] strike at corruption in public office, inequality of treatment of citizens and the use of public office...
Zimbabwean officials detained Amar C. Bakshi ‘06 on espionage charges late last month after he visited the African country to conduct thesis research on political propaganda, the Leverett House senior said. The increasingly autocratic regime of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe held the student for five days inside a cell that “reeked of feces,” Bakshi said.Bakshi, who hails from Washington D.C., said he boarded a British Airways jet to return to the United States on Dec. 30, but Zimbabwean authorities called him off the plane and would not let him leave...
Bakshi, a joint social studies and visual and environmental studies concentrator, had traveled to Zimbabwe over the summer to conduct interviews with Mugabe’s current spokesman, George Charamba, who is the permanent secretary of the Information Ministry. Bakshi also spoke to Charamba’s predecessor, Jonathan Moyo, who was expelled from Mugabe’s ruling party early last year...