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...policy states explicitly that they collect limited “non personally-identifying information” about your queries. Among the content of this information may very well be (the policy is not entirely transparent so we can’t be sure) a connection between your unique Internet Protocol address (something which while not ‘personally identifying’ on Google’s behalf can, by Harvard, at the request of a court, be linked back to your person) and the nature and subject of each of your searches...
CHARGED. DONALD KEYSER, 61, former top-level State Department official; with concealing from his superiors that he took a four-day trip to Taiwan last September, in violation of security protocol; in Alexandria, Va. He admitted to meeting with a Taiwanese intelligence officer but said he had flown to Taipei only "for sightseeing purposes...
Those who would dismiss McGraw out of hand should first remember Arnold Schwarzenegger (or country singer Jimmie Davis, who served two terms as Governor of Louisiana) and then give some thought to the vagaries of country music. Nashville is perhaps the most protocol-obsessed U.S. city outside of Washington, and McGraw is its smoothest operator. He has sold 30 million albums (his latest, Live Like You Were Dying, entered Billboard's album chart at No. 1) without being excessively cornpone or mindlessly pop. In the process, he has done what his predecessor Garth Brooks could not do: reach an audience...
...loyalty of many senior Party and military officials and maintains a power base in China's commercial hub of Shanghai. But as is always the case in China, assessing whether there are differences between the two men depends on the examination of tiny shards of evidence. According to agreed protocol, for instance, Hu can demonstrate first-among-equals status by entering meeting halls before Jiang. Yet Jiang often ambles into halls first. So Beijing's political insiders watched closely on August 22 as both men entered the Great Hall of the People to commemorate the centenary of Deng's birth...
...Korea to halt. (Pyongyang also has a plutonium-based weapons program, the focus of continuing six-nation negotiations.) South Korea foreswore its nuclear weapons program in 1975, and has since been under the inspection regime of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. Last February, the government signed a protocol giving the IAEA the right to more information and to inspect sites anywhere in the country. Seoul had six months to make a full declaration of its nuclear research, and the IAEA started asking uncomfortable questions about the institute in Daejon...