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Hatch intends to attach this proposal to a larger, more popular anti-terror bill that aides the government in catching ‘lone-wolf’ terrorists. Attaching a controversial rider to an otherwise constructive bill is shameful. In using this method, Hatch is not allowing for a full and fair debate of the PATRIOT...
Debate would help to illuminate the PATRIOT Act’s extensive liberty-limiting provisions. Under it, the government can more easily eavesdrop and access records of American citizens. Hatch’s zeal to quietly pass this proposal as a rider reveals a disturbing eagerness to reduce civil liberties...
During this tenuous time, when terror threats jeopardize our way of life, America needs a new plan for terrorism. But instead of permanently adopting legislation full of affronts on individual liberties, Congress must prevent Hatch’s rider from getting passed. A new anti-terrorism plan may draw on some of the PATRIOT Act’s more successful legislation, but blindly accepting the existing act will inadequately fight terrorism and extensively curb our freedoms...
...Easy Rider (1969) and in the freer, more personal films that flowed from its success, Nicholson became a kind of figurehead for a loose group of actors and filmmakers who were trying to expand the commercial genre...Their work was almost always full of aggressive invention, but the new Hollywood passed, the victim of erratic returns at the box office. Nicholson passed along with it, not out of sight, but on to other things. He worked into the mainstream, and started running with the high rollers. He now counts as two of his buddies Paramount Production Chief Robert Evans...
...late-game poise Harvard showed in its clutch, early-season road wins at Fairfield and Rider was hard to find for the second straight week. As happened at Princeton on Jan. 31, the Crimson (10-9, 2-4 Ivy) owned second-half leads in both of this weekend’s games, only to surrender crushing runs unbecoming of Harvard’s veteran lineup...