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...Attorney General Viet Dinh ’90 told the audience at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum that he believes most criticism of the PATRIOT Act—which permits increased governmental scrutiny of civilians by authorizing techniques like secret subpoenas and wiretaps and by creating more stringent immigration controls—is excessive...
...Remer tackled the formulas similar to those used by the selections committee, such as the PairWise Rankings (PWR), but also speculated based on the less stringent rules of the women’s league relative to the men?...
With its dining hall already the most notorious on campus for turning away hungry outsiders because of its draconian interhouse restrictions, Adams House introduced its most stringent prohibitions to date last Sunday: No first-years are allowed for lunch or dinner anytime, unless accompanied by a House resident. The ban is wrong, and Adams House should repeal...
...route, crews are out in the barren expanses of the Texas-Oklahoma Panhandle finishing up a two-year project to double track 100 miles of rail. BNSF is also rushing to add 344 GE locomotives--at a price of $1.3 million each--before federal investment incentives expire and more stringent pollution-control standards become...
...that the EPA is willing to do some backpedaling. Recently, the agency caved into industry lobbies and weakened previously-set regulatory policies. In a document released by the government late last year, the EPA decided to revise its December 2000 findings (in which it placed mercury under the most stringent regulations of the Clean Air Act alongside other neurotoxins such as asbestos, chromium and lead) to place mercury under a significantly less stringent provision of the Act which deals with pollutants less toxic to humans, such as smog...