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...Association hopes eventually to modify legislation to exempt university libraries from the Patriot Act’s provisions...
...Senate, would limit the federal access to records that the Patriot Act accords, while the so-called “Library and Bookseller Protection Act,” also pending in the Senate, would check the provisions of Section 215 by amending the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to exempt libraries and bookstores from federal demands for user records. A related bill under consideration in the House would require government agents to produce “tangible things” after a library investigation to prove it was necessary...
...kids to Iraq may be an informal, economic one—but it is no less effective for that. During the Civil War, $400 could buy a drafted man a substitute to go to war in his stead. During Vietnam, there were deferments for men going to college, and exemptions for boys like our President, well-connected enough to wrangle a place in the National Guard. It came down, of course, to a class divide. My father, who grew up in Rust Belt northern Ohio, knew boys who died in Vietnam; my mother, who is from Brooklyn, didn?...
...armies to "serve the cause of justice" in other lands and be so sure of our righteousness that the merest act of penitence-an apology for an atrocity-becomes a presidential crisis. "This is not the America I know," Bush said of the torturers, as if U.S. soldiers were exempt from the temptations of absolute power that have plagued occupying armies from the beginning of time...
Under new campaign-finance rules, big donors can no longer spend lavish sums to entertain politicians at the parties' national conventions. But that won't stop the partying this year. House majority leader Tom DeLay has set up a tax-exempt charity called Celebrations for Children, which will raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from top donors at the Republican Convention in New York City by offering them yacht cruises, tickets to Broadway shows and the chance to mingle with Republican lawmakers at parties. DeLay aides say all the net proceeds will go to programs for foster children, a cause...