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...Rights, an agreement designed to promote gender equality and freedom of expression. While Islamic fundamentalists intimidate the West by manufacturing outrage against novels, cartoons, lectures, essays and theater productions, the U.N. complies with Muslim prohibitions against speaking freely about Islam. The freedom to think and express oneself - and even mock authority figures - is the bedrock of Western values, and to defend this freedom, it appears necessary to disband the U.N. and develop other international and regional organizations. Jiti Khanna Vancouver Cutting Our Losses Leslie Gelb's viewpoint "The Dominoes That Did Not Fall" [Oct. 23] argued that, after...
...anti-pretexting law would also ban the data brokers who practice pretexting from advertising their services, making it harder for them to create a business out of it. Congressional JockeyingThe House Committee on Energy & Commerce had their own dig at party politics at the recent hearings, displaying a mock vintage movie poster featuring Scarlett and Rhett's classic pose with the caption "H.R. 4943 Gone with the Wind." (You have to be a Congressional aide to appreciate the humor.) They were referring to the Committee's pretexting bill, Prevention of Fraudulent Access to Phone Records Act, which they approved last...
Members of Harvard Law School (HLS) Advocates for Human Rights held a mock funeral outside of Harkness Commons yesterday afternoon to protest what they saw as the unconstitutionality of a bill authorizing military tribunals to try Guantanamo detainees, passed by the House and Senate last week. Some donned placards with names of congressmen who supported the bill and the words “Vote for Torture 2006.” Some wore black bags over their heads. Micheal Jones, a staff member of the HLS Human Rights Program, read a eulogy that began “today we mourn...
...application process itself mirrors standard online recruitment: seniors fill out an exhaustive online application, and later go through interviews and mock teaching sessions. At the interview, recruiters ask off-beat questions to quash pre-packaged answers...
...grown considerably” in recent years, says Koh. Both he and Rosenthal mention an incident support team, consisting of “all the major areas of the university; human resources, health care, Harvard police, about ten or twelve organizations.” The team runs through mock disasters and promotes collaboration between the fire department, police, and other emergency responders. In the event of a biological threat, Harvard seems to have its bases covered. But Koh warns against complacency. “The most critical part of public health is upholding standards for prevention...