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...more outspoken liberals--Sean Penn, George Clooney. Many celebrities have found that working on international causes (say, civil liberties or poverty overseas) is a way to indulge a more palatable, little-l liberalism at a safe remove from controversial issues at home (say, civil liberties under the Patriot Act or poverty in Newark...
...class assignment habits are leading to state scrutiny,” he wrote. The story of the UMass-Dartmouth student comes at the same time as President Bush’s admission that he authorized a program of secret surveillance and the Senate struggle over the renewal of the Patriot Act because of concerns about civil liberties violations. Pontbriand and Associate Professor of History Brian G. Williams at UMass-Dartmouth spoke to The Standard-Times (a local Massachusetts newspaper) about the incident, but Williams did not respond to telephone or e-mail requests for comment yesterday. Williams told The Standard...
...Yada] has experience as well, so having us come in as opposed to myself a couple years ago, is a big difference.”With Cusworth sidelined, Stehle will once again shoulder most of the burden in the frontcourt. Stehle will be responsible for neutralizing Kyle Chones, the Patriot League’s leading rebounder. Chones enters the game averaging seven points and seven rebounds a contest, but in three games against Ivy schools (Cornell, Dartmouth, and Princeton), he has chipped in an average of 13 points and 11 boards.“He’s a really...
...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...