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...Buell wrote in an e-mail that “President Summers did not request the cancellation of the lecture” and that the decision was motivated by the department’s desire to avoid undue controversy...
...Anyone can request divestment, but the ACIR fields all requests and they make the official recommendations regarding the university’s holdings,” he said...
...scrapped because the database couldn't recognize that words like Turkish and Turkey meant the same thing. Something has to be done - and soon. The Heidelberg raid demonstrates why. The CID reported the couple to both the Heidelberg police and the BKA, and each agency filled out an investigation request stamped "urgent." The police report got lost in the mail twice - once on its way to the state's attorney's office, and then again on its way back to the police - while the BKA request languished at the bottom of a stack of backlogged work in the BKA office...
...according to Microsoft - into custody. Murray-Cowan, a British businessman and would-be politician who ran for local office in Suffolk in 1999, was already wanted there for jumping bail on 12 charges of infringing the trademark on Microsoft Windows. Police are weighing fresh charges in Germany against a request for extradition to the U.K. (though Murray-Cowan has not been convicted of anything). In an unrelated case, Italy's financial police, the Guardia di Finanza, announced last week it had conducted synchronized raids across nine Italian provinces, closing down an Internet piracy ring with an estimated turnover of over...
Sound crazy? Of course it does. Yet two months ago a European public official made a request that was virtually identical in its absurdity and moral bankruptcy. On September 13, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov called for restoring the statue of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, which is currently lying in a park next to other Communist-era sculptures, to its former place in the city’s Lubyanka Square. This immediately set off a wave of protests from outraged citizens, the Russian Orthodox Church, various human rights organizations and members of Russia’s parliament. Dzerzhinsky, you see, was to Soviet...