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Civil libertarians are worried that what they see as the Bush Administration's post-Sept. 11 rights grab on all these different fronts will be with us forever. Congress insisted on applying the sunset rule to many provisions of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the main new law to come out of the Sept. 11 attacks: if they are not passed again in four years, they disappear. But unlike Roosevelt's 1942 military-tribunal order, which authorized just one trial, Bush's order on tribunals has no end date. Attorney-client monitoring is also open-ended...
...Ashcroft had taken the Bush Administration's more controversial initiatives to Capitol Hill, he might have avoided some of the backlash. But while Congress was passing the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the Attorney General was writing far-reaching rules of his own and issuing them through the Federal Register. "We felt that we had been asked for and had given the Administration the tools it needed to fight terrorism," says Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin. Its unhappiness at being kept in the dark is the reason the Senate Judiciary Committee called Ashcroft in this week to explain himself...
...able to improve its field-goal percentage to 47.4 percent—much higher than the 27 percent effort against B.U.—but the Crimson never got closer than five points in the second half, as Colgate (5-2, 0-0 Patriot) held off a late Crimson...
...Raiders invade Lavietes Pavilion tomorrow for a 2 p.m. match-up with the Crimson men’s basketball team. The showdown with Colgate University will be Harvard’s seventh game of the year and its first against a Patriot League...
...Raiders (4-2) have the highest scoring average in the Patriot League, averaging 77.0 points a game. The scoring has been led by four different players, all averaging in double figures. Harvard will have to make its baskets and play good defense to try and restrain the high-scoring Colgate squad...