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...filing a battery of FOIA requests on behalf of the political groups, the ACLU is opening another front in its nationwide fight to discover the extent of government spying on domestic activists under the Bush administration. The ACLU of Pittsburgh announced last week that it had obtained documents showing that the FBI there had monitored the Thomas Merton Center, a religious group devoted to peace. Members of the group engaged in some antiwar leafleting in 2002, and the Pittsburgh documents reportedly show that FBI agents took photos of the leafleters and conducted other surveillance...
Fante has a kindred spirit in Towne, whose scripts for Shampoo, The Two Jakes, Tequila Sunrise and other films create nearly as dense an overview of Southern California as August Wilson did of Pittsburgh, Pa. And Towne was lucky in his casting of Hayek, who always smolders intelligently, and Farrell. The actor can be roguish, annoying, sexy, loving and lost--Bandini to a T. Towne is more trusting of them than he is of the book's plot; toward the end he seems to mistake Fante's Camilla for Garbo's Camille. But the moments the olive-skinned lovers spend...
Even with a reduced showing, the Harvard men’s swimming and diving team achieved solid results at the ECAC Open Swimming and Diving Championships this weekend, finishing ninth out of 18 teams. At the annual meet in Pittsburgh, Penn., the Crimson was helped by sophomore Brendan Mitchell, who tallied several strong individual performances and did his part for the team in the relay. Although teams are allowed 17 swimmers to compete, Harvard consisted of only nine swimmers. The rest of the Crimson team stayed behind in Cambridge to prepare for next week’s Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming...
...country that has had an election in the past year has emerged more stable as a result of the experience." But what is the alternative? Democracy is surely an achievement, and until someone has a better plan for Iraq, I will continue to back Bush's. Tim Savisky Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
...her—she’s just big. She’s our marquee player that we’re missing. We’re a different team without her.” A LACKNER SHOWDOWNHarvard junior forward Christiana Lackner is always aggressive on the glass, but the Pittsburgh, Penn., native had more incentive to crash the glass against the Quakers on Friday. Lackner’s sister, Katarina, is a freshman forward at Penn, and the two squared off on the low block throughout the game on Friday.The younger Lackner hit double digits with 10 points...