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Spiegelman added, however, that the NAS election procedures are flawed, favoring physical scientists over life scientists because of strict caps on the numbers of researchers elected in each field in any given year...
...student is aware of the problem, that the student is aware of the resources the College has to help with various issues or that there is not something else causing difficulties (like roommate problems, personal issues, illness, etc.).” Even though policies concerning academic standards are strict, there are a lot of safety nets...
...during the first year of the Union's existence, for the intervening period has been almost free from this annoyance. There is unfortunately little that the Committee itself can do beyond giving the matter such a measure of publicity as to rouse public opinion against the practice. A strict surveillance of the library rooms and watching men as they go back and forth is out of the question. It would almost be better to close the library altogether that to destroy the sense of freedom and of private ownership that characterizes...
...don’t mean to make some sort of strict constructionist argument that we can’t violate the “framer’s intent” in updating copyright law or that somehow its fundamental purpose is sacred or inalterable. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the surreptitious enactment of additions to that code that alter it in powerful but inextensible ways just so the old business models of the creative industries are not put at risk. We must instead recognize that sharing and free access to information are fundamental features of the technological...
...that is not Muqtada al-Sadr's way. He shares with the late Iranian revolutionary Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini a belief in rule by the clergy in a strict theocratic state. Al-Sadr's strategy, it now appears, is to engage coalition forces in a deadly confrontation, in the belief that Iraqi Shi'ites will support him in a direct showdown with the U.S. His rabid anti-Americanism, which previously failed to connect with the majority of Shi'ites, now strikes a chord. A year after the war began, their tolerance is exhausted. The lower rungs of society...