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...what was going on,” she said. “They didn’t know what type of information had been taken.” A UCLA spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. The e-mail concluded that UCLA would not try to obtain personal information from any students, and said that under no circumstances should students divulge information to anyone claiming to be from UCLA. Katherine S. Sengoba ’10, a resident of Irvine, Calif., who had considered applying to UCLA, said she was slightly delighted by the news...
...going to kill him," she says. Kok-de Bruijn became Summers' pen pal in 1992, visited his Huntsville prison 30 times and witnessed his Oct. 25 execution by lethal injection. Shortly before his death, Summers accepted a last-minute offer to be buried in Tuscany after attempts to obtain burial rights in the Netherlands, Britain and Tennessee had been unsuccessful. The benefactor was Cascina middle school principal Maria Carmela Carretta, who'd been following the case with a class of sixth-graders after reading about it in a Catholic magazine...
...mentioned by name in the report, Harvard received $21.9 million in Defense Department research funding in the 2005 fiscal year, the most recent year for which data is available, according to a University report. The auditors’ concerns arise from federal laws that generally require researchers to obtain “export licensing for defense-related items and information, including data.” The Bureau of Industry and Security, a Commerce Department agency, handles about 1,000 such requests annually. But Commerce officials told the auditors that only two universities have submitted license applications in recent years. They...
...Chertoff defends even aspects of the ATS data collection that might be deemed trivial and a needless invasion of privacy. In certain cases, for example, the U.S. can obtain the meal preferences of a passenger. Chertoff points out that such cases require special high-level approval from both the U.S. and international law enforcement authorities. The point, says Chertoff, is to use all the tools we have to act before the terrorist do. "If we sit back and just rely on a list of names, we will likely miss something. And we do not want to be in that position...
...either, so he decided to take the bits he liked from both VES and English and strike out on his own. The result, under the guidance of Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch, was a creative thesis titled “’If Answerable Style I Can Obtain...’: An Analysis and Account of Illustrating Paradise Lost” — a film noir-style graphic rethinking of John Milton’s classic poem, which won Chiang a summa cum laude reading and a Hoopes Prize. Damrosch remembers Chiang...