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...hook, and its competitors can breathe easier too. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman yesterday dismissed the service provider as a codefendant in presidential adviser Sidney Blumenthal?s $30 million libel suit against Matt Drudge -- on the grounds that the 1996 Communications Decency Act absolves ISPs from responsibility for content supplied by third parties. "Whether wisely or not, [Congress] made the legislative judgment to effectively immunize providers of interactive computer services from civil liability... with respect to material disseminated by them but created by others," wrote Judge Friedman...
...Loker's gift is such a shot in the arm for our great goals for Widener. I don't ordinarily get $17 million every weekend; I am overjoyed," said Sidney Verba '53, director of the Harvard University Library and Pforzheimer University Professor...
...Sidney R. Knafel '52, whose donations will fund the construction of the Knafel Center near Coolidge Hall in the near future, says that his gifts were also tailored to Harvard's needs...
Starr ignored the fracas and focused on the goal of sending his report to Congress before the midsummer recess. In meeting that deadline, he faces another stumbling block: the refusal of White House aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal to answer certain questions about their discussions with the President and First Lady because, the White House claims, the conversations are covered by Executive privilege...
However, the reality of the relationship between church and state is significantly more complicated. As Tocqueville understood when he visited America more than a century and a half ago, in America, religion is "the first political institution." As Robert Putnam, Sidney Verba and others have found, even in our more modern times, those who attend religious services and are involved in church activities vote and engage in direct political activity more often than do those who are not institutionally involved in religious life...