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Marshall also said that discussions between Harvard, the State, and CSX over the past few years have yielded a “roadmap” outlining conditions that would have to be met before CSX can fully remove its operations from the area and transfer its land holdings to Harvard, including environmental testing and “other important due diligence benchmarks...
...ability of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to compel document disclosure, but would limit that power to the records of people connected to terrorism or espionage. It would make numerous other changes, such as limiting use of National Security Letters - a power the FBI has misused in the past, according to the Inspector General of the Justice Department - to force document disclosure and lifting telecommunication companies' immunity from civil claims arising from the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretaps. (Read about the Bush Administration and the Patriot...
...another 32%. The U.C. system must chop $637 million out of its budget this year following the agreement between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the legislature on how to close California's massive $26 billion shortfall in July. Many of the protesters believe the constant increase in fees over the past decade is endangering the university's mission as a public university that offers students an outstanding education at a cost that middle- and working-class families can afford. (Read a story about budget cuts at the University of California system...
...TIME that "the idea that hatred for Barack Obama played any role in this is rank speculation and completely unwarranted at this juncture." Explains Cross: "Resistance to federal authority in the area dates back more than a century, to the era of major moonshine stills." And for nearly the past three decades, he says, "federal and state authorities have targeted pot growers in Clay and adjoining counties." It is currently marijuana-harvesting season, probably a particularly bad time to randomly knock on doors in Clay County...
Clay County, says Martin Hatfield, a former federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Kentucky, is "certainly an area that's been given a lot of attention from the federal authorities over the past several years. Who knows what kinds of emotions that has stirred up?" In such areas, Cross says, there's a certain tolerance of underground economies - and additional sensitivity to any perceived government snooping. Hatfield notes that local residents may turn a blind eye to drugs and corruption because of fear of retribution. "Fear becomes the norm - people don't know any other way, and it becomes...