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...address, inviting in a network camera to capture the rare live delivery of the speech as he declared that the no-longer-secret surveillance program makes it "more likely that killers like these 9/11 hijackers will be identified and located in time." G.O.P. strategists argue that Democrats have little leeway to attack on the issue because it could make them look weak on national security and because some of their leaders were briefed about the the National Security Agency (NSA) no-warrant surveillance before it became public knowledge. Some key Democrats even defend it. Says California's Jane Harman, ranking...
...That seemed to be the intended message in November?s parliamentary poll. As the liberal Nour was suffering his defeat, Egypt?s Muslim Brotherhood, a party that seeks to reestablish an Islamic caliphate, was given unprecedented leeway by the regime to field its candidates. It captured nearly 20 percent of the seats, a sixfold improvement on its previous best showing, making the fundamentalists the largest opposition force in parliament. Egypt?s future has thus become a polarizing struggle between Mubarak and Islam, a contest that liberals, with Nour in jail rather than in parliament, have little hope of winning...
...serve the suspension on Christmas or New Year’s Day. However, since Felipe’s co-owners Tom Brush and Felipe Herrera can schedule—without interference from the CLC—the non-consecutive suspension, the ruling gives Felipe’s substantial leeway. “We would ideally choose days that would be least disruptive to business and students,” Brush said. He added that he will likely close for two days between Christmas and New Year’s Day, when the University is not in session. The disciplinary hearing...
...university towns like Cambridge, arrests and convictions for marijuana use and distribution tend to be much lower per capita then almost anywhere else in the country, he says, as private colleges are often given leeway to deal with marijuana issues internally...
...world where its operatives could interrogate them out of the reach of the U.S. legal system and human-rights organizations. But four years later, with about three dozen of al-Qaeda's most hard-core agents in CIA custody, America's new spy chief seems less enthusiastic about the leeway his operatives have had. At a secret briefing for U.S. Senators on Oct. 26, a senior U.S. intelligence official tells TIME, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte was pointedly neutral on Vice President Dick Cheney's Capitol Hill lobbying to have the CIA exempted from legislation banning mistreatment of detainees...