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...movements with Palestinian security officials. Whatever the outcome of the investigation, however, the U.S. will now brook no further excuses from the PA for failing to go to war on the radical groups. But with Palestinian politics is disarray, the ability of the PA to carry out an effective crackdown is far from certain even if PA leaders find the political will - and until now, the political consensus in the PA is that the radical groups have to be persuaded, by national consensus, to end terror attacks...
Undergraduates, law students and professors have criticized the University and HLS for not doing more to protest the government’s crackdown...
...crackdown on illegal music downloading and the new legal sites that are coming to life [BUSINESS, Sept. 22]: For decades people have shared their records, cassettes or CDs with friends. We understood that you were free to make a copy for your personal use as long as the copy wasn't used for commercial purposes. These days young folks do the same thing, only they use the computer to share music. And now the record companies are calling them thieves and threatening them with lawsuits. I'm no lawyer, but this just doesn't pass the smell test. Shame...
...Bush administration’s support for a crackdown on heroin production in Afghanistan may spark a rise in AIDS throughout central Asia, a drug policy expert told an Institute of Politics forum last night...
...Flynt has plunged into the California recall zoo under the slogan “Vote For a Smut Peddler Who Cares,” promising a crackdown on illegal immigration, treatment instead of incarceration for nonviolent drug offenders and legalized gambling. He’s also making appearances on the ACLU college tour at the University of Miami and Harvard, criticizing President Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft for their support and implementation of the Patriot Act, which he calls an unprecedented attack on civil liberties. While his characterization of radical feminists as a group whose “only...