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...press is important to the greater integrity of the academy, where students and professors as well as journalists question and investigate and learn from the world around them. Those are values that motivate us as journalists, and we hope they are values that the USC administration also chooses to stand behind...
...money to sponsor surgeries for orphans so any amount of this that is taken away will mean that there are less orphans that we can help,” Liu said. The 5-percent tax would have risen to 15 percent within three years. A standing committee chaired by Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd had recommended last week that student groups be exempted from the tax, which is imposed upon all units of FAS. Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, though, told The Crimson last week that the tax would stand. “As Dean...
...initiative on this years ballot, and we maintain our reservations regarding its specificity. The EAC’s proposal backing this initiative lacks crucial details about financing that give us pause. In particular, the report lacks any concrete estimates for how much this initiative will cost. Moreover, we stand by the principle that Harvard’s dollars are best allocated towards research on energy rather than its own cutbacks on emissions. Harvard boasts some of the world’s greatest minds, and the University could achieve much by harnessing talent and funneling more resources toward energy research. Nevertheless...
...extended torture visited upon Mr. Padilla has left him damaged, both mentally and physically," said one court filing by Orlando do Campo, one of Padilla's lawyers. Padilla's filing also says that he was subjected to sleep deprivation and extremes of heat and cold, forced to stand in "stress positions" that can be painful, and given "truth serum" to make him talk...
...rebuff is coming from the other side, for equally understandable reasons. Mutual defense of NATO territory is one thing; the call to stand shoulder to shoulder in a bedeviled country thousands of miles away from Europe is a more troublesome proposition. It isn't simply a question of resources: Canada is on the front line despite an anemic defense budget. For all the lip service paid to Afghanistan as a war that cannot be lost, there seems to be a lack of political will to do what is necessary...