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...census workers began knocking on doors in Noorvik, Alaska, the first stop in an epic attempt to count everyone in America. Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution calls for an "actual Enumeration" of the population every 10 years in order to determine how many Representatives each state gets in the House. The survey has also collected data on occupations, education and housing, among other subjects. The first Census, in 1790, was mainly a head count of free, white, draft-eligible men. Later queries were sometimes absurdly specific: in 1850, data collectors were instructed to "ascertain if there...
Before joining the Supreme Court, Souter served on the New Hampshire Supreme Court and as an Associate Attorney General in the state. He was briefly on the U.S. Court of Appeals before being appointed by Bush...
...government should have the power to decide what one can or cannot study. I am not dismissive of the security concerns of the United States and Egypt, and my request was entirely reasonable—I did not ask the embassy for endorsement or special assistance. On the contrary, on Dec. 27, the first full day I was in Cairo, I went to the embassy and told them why I was in Egypt. They brought me a sworn affidavit, which I willingly signed, stating that I understood that the State Department had determined that travel to the Gaza Strip...
Additionally, HUCTW wrote that the state of the University’s finances might be improving, which, it said, made its members hopeful that the current cuts would not be permanent...
...School and Kennedy School student Craig S. Altemose, the founder of Students for a Just and Stable Future (SJSF), which coordinated the sleep-outs last fall. The Boston police had issued trespassing citations at five different sleep-out protests last fall, where SJSF members pushed for the Massachusetts State Legislature to introduce a bill for 100 percent clean energy...