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...nine-run fifth inning solidified the Harvard baseball team’s 19-3 victory over Holy Cross (12-20, 7-11 Patriot League) in a non-conference match-up yesterday at O’Donnell Field...
McKenna shut the Raiders down completely in the second half, recording 11 of his 16 saves to blank Colgate (8-7, 4-2 Patriot League). The Crimson (5-9, 1-4 Ivy) ran off five straight goals to blow the game wide open...
Politicians on both sides of the aisle have eagerly passed legislation that abrogates civil liberties with only a cursory glance at the consequences. One of the first sweeping assaults on freedom was the USA PATRIOT Act, which passed the Senate by a 98-1 vote on Oct. 26, 2001. Both Republicans and Democrats were complicit in supporting the bill as neither side was willing to appear soft on terrorism so soon after Sept. 11; little seems to have changed since then...
...reasonable to expect some restrictions of civil liberties during a time of war, and some of the PATRIOT Act’s provisions are necessary to help law enforcement officials deal with changing technology. But America will never be able to declare victory in the war on terror; this conflict, unlike a conventional war, will never end in unconditional surrender. Any sacrifices we make will be permanent. As if to drive that point home, the government has recently been pushing to overturn the original four-year “sunset” limits on the PATRIOT Act?...
...media has been filled with pictures of American soldiers, not with detailed discussions about the ramifications of the PATRIOT Act. Very few commentators have felt the need to speak out about the theft of civil liberties. One of the exceptions is former New York Times columnist and Crimson executive Anthony Lewis ’48, who said at a recent Lowell House dinner, “If I were editing the editorial page of a newspaper, I’d write an editorial about it every single...