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...renewed by Congress in March, empowers the FBI to demand individuals’ private information from doctors’ offices, banks, and libraries without a judge’s consent, using “national security letters,” which carry with them a “gag rule,” that prevents recipients from discussing the letters with anyone but their lawyers. (Those investigated can challenge this gag rule.) For researchers using services like RefWorks, the potential hazard is that their academic work could be red-flagged and investigated without their knowledge...
...unless Harvard’s librarians were to have the guts to challenge the constitutionality of “national security letters” in court—as four Connecticut librarians recently did, persisting long enough for the FBI to drop first the gag rule and then the information request altogether—we seem to be stuck in a situation where we will remain uncertain about the privacy of our research. Every member of the Harvard community, from part-time undergraduates to tenured faculty, has cause for concern. There is nothing more unsavory than the concept of honest...
...Il’s hair depicted as a mushroom cloud) when the editors’ note itself states that this image was employed by at least four different artists. Breeden’s only crime is that in a select few of her pieces she went for an obvious gag, an offense quite common in editorial cartooning, worthy of a reprimand, at most, but certainly not a pink slip...
...When editors all want the same thing from a cartoonist, and the cartoonists are all drawing on the same topics at the same time, it is no wonder that we come up with the simple, easy, first-gag-that-comes-to-mind,” Cagle wrote. “That is what I see in this poor, besieged Harvard cartoonist...
...reps won't comment on who leaked them, but their disclosure means she'll have less bargaining power come settlement time. Coincidentally, since Sir Paul just applied to trademark his name for use on scads of products from vegetarian food to panty hose, he might want to consider McCartney? gag orders...