Word: restrictions
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Harvard would never restrict international students’ access to any of its course offerings, senior adminstrators said yesterday in response to renewed suggestions that the government monitor courses taken by foreigners at U.S. colleges...
...It’s outrageous to restrict access in an educational environment,” agrees Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley. “If we need to restrict access, we will—but we’ll make sure we can explain it. We’re just not at that level of risk...
...Thomas Jefferson famously said that "the price of liberty is eternal vigilance." We must now be more vigilant than ever - a vigilance which includes enduring inconvenience at airports and public buildings; a vigilance that will in many ways restrict the unfettered freedom to travel that we once took for granted. But we also must be vigilant about those who want to rush us into unthinking judgments and actions to satisfy a hunger for vengeance. We show our strength and confidence not in precipitous action, but in patience...
That's not the only question to which Bush's proposal will be subjected on Capitol Hill, starting with hearings this week before the Senate Health Committee. Lawmakers also want to know whether patents and other legal obstacles will restrict use of the cell lines and whether they might have been tainted by exposure to mouse cells and bovine serum. G.O.P. Senator Arlen Specter says the doubts that researchers are raising about their own work makes it "a fair pending question" whether political pressure is distorting what should be an ethical and scientific debate. At a minimum, the issue seems...
...wealthier nations don't need to bother with such chicanery - they can simply rely on their power to restrict the agenda of the conference, and their participation in it. The Americans and some other Western nations may have focused their reservations on the Israel issue, but there's plenty else on the agenda that has them worried. In a perverse way, the anti-Zionist camp has given the U.S. a pretext for pulling Secretary of State Colin Powell from a conference that will also focus extensively on the legacy of slavery...