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...music fans. In Shut Up & Sing we see a protester outside one of their concerts shouting, "Be proud of your country. Be ashamed of the Dixie Chicks." Another said of Natalie: "They should send her over to Iraq, strap her to a bomb and drop her over Baghdad." One patriot summed up the anti-Chicks sentiment: "Freedom of speech is fine... but not in public...
...ruling, Garney simply stated, "Certification by the Attorney General is required for aliens detained either on account of serious adverse foreign policy consequences or on account of security or terrorism concerns." Nor did the government detain Posada under any "special circumstances" that, under the Patriot Act, would have allowed prolonged detention beyond the six months established previously by the Supreme Court. Many observers viewed the fact that Garney issued his ruling on September 11 as a not-so-subtle rebuke of the Bush Administration, which he seems to feel is saddling the courts with a job that is really...
...with what could be the Ancient Eight’s best defense. The losing streak moves to five in a nail-biter.Prediction: Lafayette 23, Penn 17PRINCETON AT LEHIGH (1-1)This is a diminished Princeton side from a year ago and the Mountain Hawks are usually among the best the Patriot League has to offer. Lehigh quarterback Sedale Threatt is a legitimate one—threat, that is—and the Tigers lost the heart of their D in three departed standout linebackers and Jay McCareins. Princeton lacks the firepower to make this a shootout.Prediction: Lehigh 27, Princeton 10YALE...
...building from which the fatal shot was fired, and who may have had al-Qaeda sympathies. The FBI investigates other leads, but, as with the events after 9/11, Dick Cheney, now President, uses the tenuous al-Qaeda connection to push his own harsh agenda. He calls for a Patriot Act 3, suspending most civil liberties, and for military engagement with Syria. An already grotesque world situation keeps growing tesquer...
Moreover, the fallout from the war has deprived all of us of the liberty and privacy we once took for granted in the bubble. Now Lamont and Widener are subject to surveillance under the PATRIOT Act. Some student activists are being watched by the Pentagon. And a journalism student recently uncovered “Project Strike Back,” in which the FBI mined hundreds of students’ financial aid records...