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...foreign governments and protecting the electronic communications of the United States. Thousands of listening posts worldwide and a vast computer complex in Maryland allow the NSA to tap into and record all electronic messages entering or leaving the country. A 1975 post-Watergate Senate panel described the NSA setup as a "giant vacuum cleaner." But unlike domestic law-enforcement agencies, which must obtain a warrant from a Federal Judge before tapping phone messages, the NSA gets warrants from a special secret panel of judges...
Horner cited the Agassiz Theater's "long career of supporting and nurturing artists, "including the young Eugene O'Neill. She added that the unique setup might serve as a model for other universities if it succeeds...
...Christians to Muslims in the population. Under the National Covenant, an unwritten agreement reached at the time, the country's President is always a Maronite, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim, and the Speaker of Parliament a Shi'ite Muslim. But the Maronites overwhelmingly dominated the setup through their power in the military and their economic influence. Moreover, the Muslims are now believed to be the majority in the population...
...occasions pass, marked only by photographs. Some of Paik's pieces were more permanent, like a television set with the screen removed and a candle burning in the empty cabinet-a neat comment on the votive, shrinelike role played by TV in the home-or a closed-loop setup titled TV Buddha, in which a stone effigy of the Buddha sits with a camera pointed at it, ceaselessly contemplating its own immobile image in a small monitor...
...Williams, who had testified during the trial that her son was "a fun-loving 100% American boy," was less forgiving. She called Judge Cooper an Uncle Tom and charged of the jury that "all they wanted to do was go home." Said she of the trial: "It was a setup from beginning...