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...week their suspicions gained supporting evidence. A 43-page report released by the American Civil Liberties Union showed the problem to be of national scope. Citing police statistics, case studies from 23 states and media reports, the organization asserts that law-enforcement agencies have systematically targeted minority travelers for search--pedestrians, motorists and airline passengers--based on the belief that they are more likely than whites to commit crimes. Says David Harris, the University of Toledo law professor who wrote the A.C.L.U. study: "It affects blacks and Hispanics from every station in life and every geographic location...
Bill Gates ran the word commandment through a database search and found that God had dumped a whole bunch of them on his Designated Population Group--no graven images, no stealing or coveting, keep the Seventh Day holy, and also what to eat and stuff--and then, later, to love God and love thy neighbor. Gates wrote...
...Monroe, the paramount platinum goddess, became an indelible work of Pop art. The Kennedys gave off an aura in which Americans basked, happy to think that the U.S. had become a place where you could grow up to be royalty. Princess Diana, conversely, became a symbol of Everywoman's search for happiness...
...March, when software license agreements expired with Microsoft, the College did not renew student groups' ability to use networked programs such as Word and Excel, leaving some in search of funding for the products...
...although the ban on building use was lifted, the incident points to the fact that Harvard final clubs have changed. And many people predict the transformation will continue as Harvard students reach the limits of their search for social venues...