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...previous winter, the Committee on House and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) had attempted to obtain a detailed budget from Food Services—a document that some say would have helped explain the necessity of a the limited breakfast plan...
Once, editors asked Crist—“somewhat to his consternation,” as Rosenbush recalls—to obtain a recipe for a mint julep. He didn’t like...
...lectures and symposiums, and produces publications that spew anti-Jewish and anti-American rhetoric. American extremist Lyndon LaRouche told an audience that the United States was involved in the attacks of September 11, 2001. Umayma Jalahma, a Saudi professor who has declared, “The Jewish people must obtain human blood so that their clerics can prepare for holiday pastries,” was invited to speak at the Zayed Centre. Atallah Hannah, spokesperson of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, was invited by the Zayed Centre to deliver a lecture in which he praised Palestinian suicide bombers...
...Justice Department believes that librarians are overreacting. "I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding and a sense of unjustified hysteria," says Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh, who helped craft the act. Dinh says authorities have always been able to obtain subpoenas to search library records. For instance, a federal grand jury authorized searches in the mid-1990s to learn who had checked out books mentioned in the Unabomber's manifesto. Those subpoenas, however, were issued after officials provided a reasonable suspicion that the books were related to a committed crime...
...what a person’s wages can buy. When wages increase relative to other prices, people have more economic power and ability to secure the goods they need for their families. For the poor, a higher economic value on their services and labor will mean that they can obtain better nourishment, clothing, shelter, education and medicine...