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...were feeding 600,000 people in December. As of Jan. 1, we are feeding nobody." RICHARD RAGAN, North Korea director for the World Food Programme, after the U.N. agency halted all food aid to the impoverished country at the request of its own government...
...Snyder said students articulated cravings for specific foods, rather than offering general suggestions. “The open comments tend to come back more related to products than overall dining,” she said. “It’s almost always a specific food item request.” The most common requests were for more authentic ethnic cuisine, “homestyle foods,” vegetarian entrees, and seafood. “We had a lot of people say they’re interested in fish,” said Snyder, adding that HUDS hopes...
...media attention helped the truth of the matter emerge. Now, he said, the concerns that the student’s original account raised on the UMass-Dartmouth campus have been put to rest. Williams has chosen not to identify the student, and The Standard-Times has complied with the request of the faculty members and the university not to reveal the student’s name, which could not be independently obtained. Reports of the incident had drawn nationwide attention and mentions by several prominent figures on the left, including syndicated columnist Molly Ivins and Kennedy, who alluded...
...technology since FISA was passed make the court's procedures too slow to contend with the immense flood of electronic chatter that now passes in and out of the U.S. and which the agency has much improved means of capturing and analyzing. Justice Department officials say a FISA surveillance request can take up to a week to prepare, even for some seasoned department lawyers. One of them describes the requests as being "like mortgage applications" in their complexity. "When you get a terrorist's cell phone and there are 20 numbers in it," a former Administration official says...
...that's so, the program's critics ask, then why not just apply to the FISA court first for a warrant, especially when the court has rarely stood in the way of any warrant request? According to the Justice Department, from 1979 to 2004 the court approved 18,724 wiretaps and denied only three, all in 2003. (Despite the 2002 presidential order allowing the NSA to work without a warrant when it chooses to, the agency has continued in many cases to apply for them. Last year it sought 1,754.) But the court has been subjecting the applications...