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...borrowing record was not changed by the compromises. But, under current law, libraries who receive this kind of request are prohibited from ever discussing it. The compromise would set a time limit on this controversial ban by specifying that libraries can challenge this “gag rule” in court after a year has passed, according to a statement released by the Republican senators who voted against long-term Patriot Act renewal in December...
This provision makes the right to challenge the gag order in court meaningless, national security policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union Timothy H. Edgar told The Crimson in December...
...skiing in Vail, Colorado. Those images of Ford were the material for send-ups by a rising young comic named Chevy Chase, who was one of Saturday Night Live?s stars. SNL went after Ford so many times that he finally went on the show and kept up the gag by telling Chase he was a "a very funny... suburb." Jimmy Carter was stalked by the "killer rabbit." In 1979, out fishing near his home in Plains, Georgia, Carter's dinghy was besieged by a "swamp rabbit" familiar in those parts. White House Press Secretary Jody Powell told the story...
...every dorm and doorbox in Harvard Yard. “It was a great idea,” says Svirsky, tooting his own proverbial horn. “It was harmless and will probably last for months.” But some callers didn’t get the gag. Corayer describes one caller who, he says, “couldn’t believe” the joke. “She was really hungry, I guess,” Corayer says. Corayer says that the number of calls has dwindled, but hungry callers keep dialing...
...Picture was no sure thing, because the film had managed to cause a rumpus on the left and the right. The main blasts came from Israelophiles who found the movie's anguished semi-evenhandedness a slur on the memory of a modern min-Holocaust. After Schindler's List, the gag went around town, "I knew Steven Spielberg before he was Jewish." Now, much of Hollywood was saying mournfully, "I knew Spielberg when he was Jewish." The ascendancy of Hamas (which Spielberg can't be blamed for) won't help. Neither will the film's middling box office. Three reasons...