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HUPD has not arrested anyone for the laptop thefts, the first to occur in Quincy House this year, according to Allston Burr Senior Tutor Maria Trumpler...
...show, “Living With Too Little: Landlessness, Homelessness and Poverty,” differs from many contemporary art shows because its theme is specific and political. Not many vague expressions of the inner soul occur here; all of these artists address the concrete issue of social injustice and spotlight the marginalized and the oppressed in lieu of the self. But the messages conveyed by the works, many of which are abstract or digitally altered, are not immediately apparent or easily delineated...
...legislation bans the C.I.A. and the Pentagon from propaganda activities in the United States. In the 1970s it was discovered that the C.I.A. had given false information to a French news agency, and newspaper articles about the untrue story had subsequently been published in the U.S. If this could occur before the Internet, e-mail and wireless communication became widespread, it would be even more likely today that false information disseminated abroad could be republished in America—violating the spirit of the federal law, if not the law itself...
It’s a good question. Let’s assume for argument’s sake that torture—the “time-tested technique for loosening tongues,” as Dershowitz has called it—will inevitably occur in “ticking bomb” scenarios. Let’s even assume it’s morally justifiable, and that the information obtained is reliable (a claim that many dispute). Isn’t it better to have the use of torture governed by a judicial system subject to democratic checks than...
...love the idea of the Games, the spirit of the Games and the whole “international goodwill” thing that seems to occur during the fortnight...