Word: pursuits
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...into the world of head-turning celebrity? Well, why wait? Now you can just pay to be admitted. The French company Soirée de Star provides the kinds of experience usually reserved for Kate Moss, Brad Pitt and their A-list cohorts: head to a premiere, paparazzi in pursuit; then step out of a stretch limo onto a red carpet to pose between beefy bodyguards as snappers jostle for position and an adoring press pack asks you to tell them how you came Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade...
...concluded that FISA is outdated, and that by perfecting the domestic spying program—so that authorities could only use the information in the pursuit of terrorism and not other crimes—the program would also be wise policy...
This is why I find the current situation in Iran to be so truly troubling. President Ahmadinejad in particular seems to have been reading his history books; the vocabulary of legitimacy and sovereign rights figure prominently in his pronouncements defending Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. These sort of relativist arguments are plausible on one level—we have nuclear weapons after all—but fall apart when one notes the extreme paranoia and totalitarianism prevalent in the Iranian regime...
...driftnet over Dearborn or Lackawanna or Freemont grabbing conversations" in a data mining exercise, says General Michael Hayden, the deputy director of national intelligence and former NSA chief. "This is targeted and focused. This is not about intercepting conversations between people in the United States. This is hot pursuit of communications entering or leaving America involving someone we believe is associated with al Qaeda." Bush also worries that if Congress steps in with legislation that gives legal cover for the monitoring NSA now does-which would mean public hearings on the bill and legislative language for everyone...
This innovative and wildly anticipated spring course, which will examine the clash between scientific pursuit and moral values, is being offered jointly by the government and biological sciences departments and should have a high turnout on the first Monday of shopping period. The two professors, Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel and Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences Douglas J. Melton have shared a classroom before. “We and the students had such fun on those occasions that Doug and I decided to co-teach an undergraduate class together,” Sandel wrote in an e-mail...