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...Federal Bureau of Investigation’s power to demand patron borrowing information from libraries, a provision which Harvard faculty members said violates principles of academic freedom, has been extended for four more years after Congress renewed the Patriot Act yesterday. Although the renewal was delayed in the Senate for over two months by debate on the Patriot Act’s impact on civil liberties, Harvard officials said that the debate has not substantially changed the provisions of the act. “I think it was unfortunate that the tilt of the result is to leave the Patriot...
...known artists of the age: impresario Serge Diaghilev, writers James Joyce and Marcel Proust, painter Pablo Picasso and composer Igor Stravinsky. Ostensibly they were there to celebrate the premier of Stravinsky's ballet Le Renard, performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The real reason: so a wealthy English arts patron, Sydney Schiff, could bring together the giants he worshipped. In A Night at the Majestic, Richard Davenport-Hines brilliantly reimagines this unique-in-art-history event, setting the five-star diners in their Modernist context, between Picasso's first and shocking foray into Cubism, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will still be able to access Harvard patron borrowing records—a power Harvard officials argue may have a chilling effect on academic freedom—if Congress renews the Patriot Act now that lawmakers and the White House have reached a compromise on controversial aspects of the legislation...
...FBI’s access to library patron borrowing records and internet usage and the perceived lack of sufficient judicial review over these powers have been central points of contention in the long debate over the Patriot Act renewal...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will retain its present level of access to patron records at libraries—including Harvard’s—until March 10, after Congress voted to temporarily renew the U.S.A. Patriot Act Thursday. This second short-term renewal signals lawmakers’ reluctance to reauthorize the legislation over the long-term without changing the extent of the government’s access to library records. Harvard officials have argued that the FBI’s ability to demand patron information could have a chilling effect on academic freedom. “There...