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...past year, the web server for the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department has been similarly attacked, and the people.fas server, which holds student home pages, is at the very least vulnerable, if anyone is running poorly written code on it (and, surely, someone is). To be fair, these attacks aren’t terribly dangerous—barring deeper security problems, they can’t really do much more damage than messing up a few web sites, and clever configuration can even further limit the extent of the harm...
...time, Harvard took no legal action against the Pentagon, but a coalition of 31 law schools and faculty groups—calling themselves the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR)—filed a suit against six Bush administration cabinet officials, charging that the Solomon Amendment was unconstitutional...
After a Third Circuit panel voted 2-1 in favor of FAIR, Justice Department attorneys, who are handling the government’s case, appealed the ruling to the nation’s highest court...
Sharon E. Frase, an attorney in the New York office of Heller Ehrman, who is representing FAIR, said that a Supreme Court clerk told another lawyer at her firm yesterday morning that the justices are likely to hear oral arguments in the case in November or December...
...wrong on principle, it’s that the proposed rule change is being made by one party on its spin of the electoral wheel—in regard to irrevocable, life-time appointments. Parliamentary systems get along just fine without filibusters; our mixed federal system allows them. A fair way to end the impasse would be to agree to an up or down vote prospectively, after the 2008 presidential election or the 2010 senatorial election (when all the current Senate seats will have been re-elected). That way, a new president or senate can fight elections on the issue...