Word: patriotism
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...Senate vote today on the renewal of the U.S.A. Patriot Act antiterrorism law could determine the extent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) power to demand patron information from Harvard libraries. The House of Representatives voted 251-174 Wednesday to renew a revised version of the Patriot Act, which expires Dec. 31. But at least one senator has vowed to filibuster the measure, and a bipartisan group of senators, including four Republicans and five Democrats, released a letter Wednesday criticizing the act’s failure to adequately address civil liberties concerns, especially those pertaining...
...Senate Democrats handed George W. Bush a major defeat Friday, but GOP officials insist it will end up backfiring in next year's mid-term elections. Despite intense pressure from the White House and Senate Republican leadership to extend for 4 to 10 years parts of the USA Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the month and make other parts permanent, civil-liberty-minded opponents of the bill brought it down Friday by sustaining a filibuster. Revelations in Friday's New York Times that the White House had secretly authorized the National Security Agency...
...title game participants, Northern Iowa. Brown coach Phil Estes finished fifth in the voting, a year after Harvard coach Tim Murphy finished second in balloting for the award. Estes received six first-place votes. No Ivy coach has ever won the Eddie Robinson Award, though three Patriot League coaches have garnered the distinction (Pete Lembo, Lehigh, 2002; Bill Russo, Lafayette, 1988; Mark Duffner, Holy Cross, 1987). Jim Tressel won the award in 1994 with Youngstown State and rose to the I-AA ranks where he took home a national title at Ohio State. The I-AA postseason festivities will conclude...
...9/11 attacks but affirmed his support for the intifadeh, the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation--hardly a statement marking him as a terrorist. But U.S.F. president Judy Genshaft, buckling under pressure from conservative trustees, eventually fired al-Arian despite his being tenured. Congress had just passed the USA Patriot Act expanding federal powers to investigate terrorism suspects, which Attorney General John Ashcroft seized on as a tool to nail al-Arian. The act, which Congress is working to extend another four years, allowed FBI investigators access to FBI intelligence, which had been off-limits for building criminal cases. The intel...
...risky motivational gambit, Senate Democrats are planning to attack one of President Bush's pillars of homeland security--the USA Patriot Act. The legislation, passed weeks after Sept. 11 and set to expire at the end of the month, gives law enforcement broad authority to search everything from Internet usage to credit-card records--the kind of Big Brother stuff that fires up even the most lackadaisical lefties. And so, despite Republicans' granting some key civil-liberties protections last week, top Democratic aides tell TIME that minority whip Dick Durbin of Illinois plans to lead a filibuster this week. These...