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...order, not only to the police and other security services - who already have wide investigative powers - but also to a broad assortment of national and local bodies, including district councils and health and social-services authorities. "Clearly, this is not about the police pursuing terrorists or serious criminals," says Roger Bingham, a spokesman for the human-rights group Liberty. "This raises the possibility of civil servants trawling through data collected for one purpose and used for another." The government rejects assertions that it is opportunistically creating a snooper's charter. "We're not talking about content of e-mails here...
...Memorial Day wasn't enough to pump your patriotic juices, TIME contributor Roger Rosenblatt offers another charge in Where We Stand: 30 Reasons for Loving Our Country. "I had no idea how deep my admiration for my country went," writes Rosenblatt. "The process of writing was an extension of feelings stemming from Sept. 11, when I teared up day after...
Yoshi's death unleashes our cooler-than-cool journalist into a series of life-or-death situations that Chaka takes as nonchalantly as Roger Rabbit's pal Eddie Valiant took Toontown. And Adamson, as he did in his book Tokyo Suckerpunch, evokes an animated Tokyo-as-Toontown that is simultaneously vivid, vibrant, gaudy and in glorious decline. It's a big adventure, but Adamson's teen rag writer takes it all with a shrug...
...first received the complaint yesterday and officials will take a few weeks to determine if there will be an investigation of Harvard’s policy, said OCR spokesperson Roger Murphy. If there is an investigation, he said, cases generally range from three to six months...
...Brits' intentions are clear. The two companies took pains to win the confidence of credit-rating agencies: Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch all affirmed their A-rated debt. And in announcing the merger, National Grid CEO Roger Urwin said he plans to "deploy the combined resources and financial capacity of National Grid Transco [the merged company] to take advantage of opportunities in the liberalizing energy markets abroad, in particular extending National Grid's successful U.S. strategy." Half the company's profits already come from the U.S., thanks to three utilities it owns in the Northeast, including Niagara Mohawk...