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...charter. "We're not talking about content of e-mails here," says a Home Office spokesman. "We're talking about dates and times of communications" - who contacted whom, and when. Requests for warrants to actually intercept content as part of a criminal investigation, he adds, would be subject to stringent criteria. "We can completely reassure the public. It's nonsense to say that every communication is now going to be targeted, that civil liberties are going to be highly compromised." Still, concern over potential abuse is high, given the cornucopia of "specific circumstances" under which data could be sought...
With the closure of its Washington campus and stringent budget cuts, the John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has had a turbulent year. The problems there, however, seem mild compared to those that KSG Class Day speaker Senator George J. Mitchell has tackled in recent years...
...Bakke, Justice Powell held up Harvard’s affirmative action program as an example of the kind of program that would pass muster in the court’s eyes. But realistically, public universities have never tried to match Harvard’s stringent application review. Nor would that be the best use of their limited resources. Michigan’s diversity may be achieved with fewer resources than Harvard’s, but it seems to get the job done. Indeed, for the last four years Michigan has achieved its “critical mass?...
...same time, in order to receive honors, more stringent requirements and higher grading standards should be instituted in all departments for thesis level work. But all students who successfully write a quality thesis should receive honors, not just those with top GPAs. These students have satisfied the honors requirements for their departments, and they therefore deserve honors diplomas. As the Faculty Council’s report says, the Faculty has “historically assumed that honors are something of which all of our students are capable and to which all of them should aspire. We have tended, therefore...
Sounds good. But the key to such a plan is where you set the pollution caps. Sources say the EPA sent a proposal to the White House with caps nearly twice as stringent as the ones included in Bush's Clear Skies plan. That's because any trading system that does away with existing regulations, as Clear Skies would, has potentially deadly side effects. It could undermine the EPA's long fight to bring many of the nation's oldest, dirtiest power plants into compliance with current law. And since the caps would be nationwide--letting a polluter...