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...this semester? I’ll leave the final word on their decision to The Crimson Staff of 1930: “Colleges were founded to broaden the young man before he enters on his specialized life work. Thus men who concentrate in Economics to obtain direct preparation for business are under a necessarily narrowing influence and miss what college is supposed to give them...
...time, Alito recommended that the Reagan administration file a brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold a Pennsylvania law that placed several restrictions on doctors performing abortions and required minors who wanted abortions to obtain the approval of a parent or a judge...
...Then came the intelligence-gathering abuses of the Nixon years, when the NSA as well as the FBI were used by the White House to spy on civil rights and anti-Vietnam War activists. In 1978 Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which required the NSA to obtain a warrant any time it sought to monitor communications within the U.S. (Outside the U.S., it still enjoys a free hand.) The new law created the FISA court, an 11-member secret panel whose job it is to hear the NSA requests and issue--or deny--the warrants...
...perform data mining, combing by computer through billions of phone calls and Internet messages and looking for patterns that may point to terrorist activity. That requires sifting through a mountain of individual communications to find the one that might lead to something. Under FISA, the NSA would have to obtain a warrant for each suspect phone number. Authorities argue that the FISA process is too slow to cover a situation in which a known terrorist calls a number in the U.S. not already covered by a FISA warrant...
Some recent grads who earn over $50,000 can also obtain partial loan repayment aid from the Business School...