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...wars." Granted, Koizumi did make annual visits to the shrine a campaign promise in 2001, and some speculate that he fears the wrath of the Japan Association of War Bereaved Families if he stops. But Koizumi is a lame duck?he has repeatedly said he will not try to extend his term when it expires next September?and last September's election proved that Koizumi's support is broad enough to risk alienating influential domestic constituencies in the name of better international relations. A close Koizumi advisor, who asked not to be identified, claims to be baffled by the visits...
...also affect less than a third of the student population. What I suggest here is not a tyranny of the majority, but rather the common sense realization that it is irresponsible to spend time on Quad-exclusive issues when there are more significant matters at stake, ones whose impacts extend across the undergraduate population. Let’s talk about online transcript requests. Let’s talk about improving training for Teaching Fellows. Let’s talk about better publicity for UC-funded parties. The concerns raised so vociferously and so often by Quad residents don?...
Students and administrators asked Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) to price-out several plans to extend or reform dining hall hours yesterday at a meeting of a subcommittee of the Committee on House Life (CHL) charged with examining dining hall hours and inter-house restrictions. The committee asked HUDS Director for Finance, Information Systems and Procurement Raymond R. Cross to price several plans, which included possible differentiation of hours between houses within the same “neighborhood,” the elimination of “low-volume” meals such as Saturday breakfast and Friday dinner...
Rebel conservative Republicans and Senate Democrats handed George W. Bush a major defeat Friday, but GOP officials insist it will end up backfiring in next year's mid-term elections. Despite intense pressure from the White House and Senate Republican leadership to extend for 4 to 10 years parts of the USA Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the month and make other parts permanent, civil-liberty-minded opponents of the bill brought it down Friday by sustaining a filibuster. Revelations in Friday's New York Times that the White House had secretly authorized...
...under pressure from conservative trustees, eventually fired al-Arian despite his being tenured. Congress had just passed the USA Patriot Act expanding federal powers to investigate terrorism suspects, which Attorney General John Ashcroft seized on as a tool to nail al-Arian. The act, which Congress is working to extend another four years, allowed FBI investigators access to FBI intelligence, which had been off-limits for building criminal cases. The intel files include wiretaps and other surveillance of al-Arian carried out abroad by Israeli agents, who had also taken an interest in the professor and had shared their findings...