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...commission, also suggests that airlines should take steps to make sure that such passengers actually board the flights on which they?ve checked baggage. Despite language in the report stipulating that such profiles not be based on race, ethnicity or gender, civil libertarians fear that people of Middle Eastern origin in particular will be singled out. "The proposed profiling system is invasive of privacy and likely to be discriminatory," said American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Gregory Nojeim. He argued that airlines can only prevent a terrorist from checking a bomb and then skipping the flight by matching every...
...well-intentioned as these solicitations may be, they are usually false and continue to circulate widely long after their origin, sucking up valuable bandwidth across the Internet...
WhoDB and its basic features were first disclosed last June by the Washington Times, but new details of the database's origin, scope and use have emerged in White House documents obtained by TIME. The papers show that the Clintons strenuously pushed for creation of the software, directing an aide to make it her "top priority." The First Lady was described as especially eager to get the names of early 1992 presidential supporters so they could be invited to social affairs before the next election...
...Cullinanes are the parents of two Harvard alumni and have served as Co-chairs of the Harvard-Radcliffe Parents Fund for three terms. Being of Celtic origin themselves--John's family is from Ireland while Diddy's are from Scotland--the Cullinanes later joined the Friends of Harvard Celtic Studies...
Other religious leaders in Taiwan are barely polite. The secretary-general of the Taoist Association says he has information that she has bought up vast tracts of land in Cambodia. Master Chinhsing, a Buddhist monk of Vietnamese origin who may have been Ching Hai's mentor, disapproves of her departure from the austere ways of Buddhist tradition. He has reportedly warned her never to identify herself as his former student...