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...junior faculty have left before they have come up for tenure,” he said. “It’s a combination of two things—they get tenure offers elsewhere and there is a widespread perception that tenure is difficult to obtain at Harvard...
...online, saving the College and its students time, effort, and—in the former’s case—money. This new development has been positive, but it is not without its flaws. Students who change their schedules during shopping week are vexed by the need to obtain an entirely new set of signatures from their professors, inconveniencing both students and professors, and making schedule modifications unnecessarily complicated. Switching from print to electronic signatures would remedy this problem. Rather than requiring professors and advisers to physically sign paper copies of students’ electronic study cards, the Office...
...electronic surveillance of Americans without a court warrant. But there's a bigger problem committee chairman Arlen Specter and the panel's other members face than simply getting Justice to cough up documents. Exactly how should the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which requires the Justice Department to obtain a warrant from a special FISA court before wiretapping anyone in the U.S., be updated to give the NSA more flexibility in spying on suspected terrorists...
...Administration's main stated argument against the FISA court process is that obtaining warrants beforehand is simply too time-consuming in today's fast-paced world. But if speed were the only issue, there are some relatively easy fixes. The legal standard Justice Department lawyers must meet to obtain a FISA wiretap warrant could be lowered from the current threshold that there's "probable cause" to believe a crime has been committed or about to be committed. The paperwork required with a FISA warrant application could be trimmed. In emergencies, FISA now allows the attorney general to approve a wiretap...
...White House officials knowledgeable about the FISA process and NSA's surveillance capability say the problem isn't simply the time it takes to obtain a warrant. If it were to be altered, FISA must be changed "for a different sort of coverage by NSA," explains one administration official. "FISA was very much focused on getting one particular guy," says this administration official. "It was very much like a wiretap in a criminal case. You go to court and you have probable cause to believe a person has committed a crime. So you go to FISA and get a wiretap...