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...country is on the eve of important political events ... I want you to have full freedom of choice, including appointments...
...recruiting efforts.It has been estimated that over 1,000 private contractors have died in Iraq since 2003. According to the Department of Defense’s Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, 3,783 soldiers have died in the same period. And nearly 1,000 more have died defending the freedom of Iraqi in some form or another that is officially recognized by the United States government. The practice of hiring private contractors to do the work of the United States military at home and abroad is despicable and should be ended. This is especially so given the past and current record...
...flee their home countries as political refugees, are provided with temporary positions in the University. Jacqueline Bhabha, executive director of the committee, who introduced the scholars, described the program as an “act of academic solidarity” and “a practical contribution to academic freedom...
...endowment approaches $35 billion, a new bill proposed by Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., may allow the cache to accumulate even faster. The bill would allow tax-exempt organizations—a category that includes university endowments—to invest directly in U.S. hedge funds while retaining their freedom from Internal Revenue Service dues on leveraged investments. “[Universities] are currently taxed as though they are leveraging, when it’s actually the hedge fund’s strategy,” said Kevin Casey, Harvard’s senior director of federal and state relations...
...more extensively online than in real space,” Palfrey wrote in an e-mail. “Intermediaries generally don’t have any liability for the harmful speech of their users,” he added. The challenge Facebook now confronts is how to maintain freedom of speech without making the site a haven for hate speech. “Facebook will have to decide whether they want to go further than the law would require them to go in this context,” Palfrey said. “As Facebook continues to succeed...