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...ACLU contends that in Washington State the FBI has overstepped its mandate to detect and foil terror plots. "The monitoring shows an inappropriate and wasteful government interest in groups that have no history of violence," said Doug Honig, spokesman for the ACLU of Washington...
...Bolstered by exceptional individual performances from sophomores Emily Cross and Benji Ungar—Cross took third in women’s foil, while Ungar won an individual title in men’s epee—the Harvard fencing team capped a run unprecedented in team history and impossible just five years...
...Crimson women finished their competition on Friday, trailing Penn State by 11 bouts and Notre Dame by one. A strong performance from the women’s epee squad of junior Jasmine McGlade and freshman Maria Larsson on Friday, coupled with Cross’s third-place finish in foil, put the Crimson at a distant third place heading into the men’s competition on Saturday and Sunday...
...more fundamental problem is what aviation security lawyers deride as the government?s "imperial overreach." Prosecutors are arguing that if Moussaoui had come clean with FBI agents interrogating him before 9/11, airport security could have been beefed up to foil the hijackers. In other words, they are claiming that he should be put to death because of his inactions rather than his actions. "It?s enough of a stretch to get juries to convict people who drive getaway cars in a murder of conspiracy," says one government security lawyer not involved in the case. "But these prosecutors think Moussaoui should...
...epee. Harvard’s team epee championship performance was carried by the strength of senior Julian Rose’s eight wins and plus-11 standing over all his matches. Penn grabbed victory in the only weapon that the Crimson did not emerge victorious—the foil. Harvard finished fourth. In that weapon, junior Enoch Woodhouse led the way with seven wins. Competing a day later, the Harvard women won 85 of 99 bouts to finish an impressive +263. In the foil, only one Crimson competitor lost a match, with seniors Chloe Stinetorf and Anne Austin going...