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...unleashed by its conduct threatens to undermine real achievements in the struggle against terror. A case in point is rendition. That's a practice that involves the transfer of a terror suspect from one country to another outside the formal extradition process. The overwhelming majority of renditions have the consent of all countries involved; "extraordinary rendition," effectively a kidnapping without the acquiescence of the host country, had never been carried out by the U.S. in connection to terrorism before 2001, and is likely still rare. In classic rendition cases, a suspect is brought to the U.S. for trial...
...very easy to fall into excessively idealism. In reality, the library project doesn’t seek to make the vast majority of recent academic work (journal articles and the like) available, probably because most scholarly journals already digitize their content—with their authors’ consent. And as for the great classics of world literature? Most of those are already in the public domain and wouldn’t require a publisher’s permission anyway...
When my high school classmates filled their hard drives with hordes of pirated music, videos, and software, they broke the law. Now, in digitizing thousands of books without the express consent of their copyright holders, Google stands to do the same. Because their ends are so good, and because a single court victory could jeopardize the entire project, it is in everyone’s best interest that Google back down and give authors and publishers their...
...collegial courtesy on this issue. It is not an original contract or a legally binding thing. There are some ethical issues with the idea of Harvard and Tulane making decisions on the freedom of movement and freedom of education of visiting Tulane students without their consent...
...advisory did not divulge further detail, other than calling the incident an indecent assault and battery. The HUPD website says indecent assault and battery occurs “if a perpetrator intentionally has physical contact of a sexual nature with the victim without the victim’s consent.” Melissa K. Ruopp, a student at GSE who lives in nearby Cronkhite Graduate Center, said police should release more information to students. “I would like to know because I don’t like codified language,” she said...