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...computers. Ostensibly, HASCS plans to carve out certain exceptions so that the wall will be "transparent" for everyday usage. Instant-messaging and file-downloading, for example, will be unaffected. For students with more specialized computing needs, attending a short educational session about network usage will be enough to be exempt from the firewall altogether...
...addition, Ouchark explained that the required education sessions are a way to ensure that people don't choose to be exempt from the firewall for the mere sake of being exempt...
...case for those concerned with the inequities of drug laws - to many, Downey (and his repeated failures to stay clean) represents the dark-side celebrity/wealth escape clause that keeps the rich and famous, not to mention the white and middle class, out of the nation's toughest prisons, and exempt from the nation's harshest drug laws. For others, including many who view imprisonment as a pointless and even dangerous punishment for drug addicts, Downey serves as a stark reminder of the strangling power of addiction, and the persistent failings of a system too bent on "justice" to comprehend...
...agreement between Gore and then Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin obliged Russia to stop shipping conventional weapons to Iran, in order to exempt Moscow from automatic U.S. sanctions against those who sell arms to countries on the State Department's list of states sponsoring terrorism. Despite the undertaking, Russia continued to fulfill orders for fighter aircraft, armored vehicles and submarines, but it has withdrawn from the Gore-Chernomyrdin agreement to take advantage of a $5 billion Iranian order for helicopters, surface-to-air missiles and new tanks and jets...
HEFA is an independent state agency that assists the capital raising efforts of educational, health, cultural and other non-profit institutions through loan programs and the sale of tax-exempt bonds...