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...cataloguing books, many librarians now spend much of their day shredding business records so that the government can’t get its hands on them. These librarians are protesting the PATRIOT Act, a consortium of legislation passed after the Sept. 11 attacks, which has enlarged the federal government??s powers in the fight against terrorism. The powers granted by the PATRIOT Act are set to expire in 2005. But if Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, gets his way, protesting librarians may have much shredding ahead of them...
...Harvard Yard, where this had been mentioned by several speakers, but The Crimson’s article gave concrete dollar figures to the abstract notion of war profiteering. This is worth quoting: “With nearly half a percent of its endowment invested in 11 of the government??s 15 top defense contractors, the war with Iraq may have already made Harvard as much as $4.5 million.” And what is even more troubling is that these figures are partial, since they concern only “defense” contractors: I encourage The Crimson...
Antiwar protesters should keep their focus. The government??s seemingly uncaring attitude about the voices who have consistently opposed the war is frustrating. Yet those who deserve targeting are not defense contractors, whose services are vital to our nation in many other ways, but the present administration...
With nearly half a percent of its endowment invested in 11 of the government??s 15 top defense contractors, the war with Iraq may have already made Harvard as much as $4.5 million...
Sessoms, a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government??s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, said that defense stocks are a sound part of any diversified portfolio...