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...ruling parties keep tight rein over the Muslim religious establishment through the Ministry of Awqaf, an institution that was created by Iraq's British overlords in the 1920s to control mosques, mullahs and what gets said in Friday sermons. The Baathists maintained the Awqaf as a useful tool of coercion, but it was disbanded by the American-appointed Governing Council in 2003 and forbidden by Iraq's new constitution. Yet Ministries of Awqaf still exist in Kurdistan, and are still used to enforce political orthodoxy. "Instead of one big Saddam, we have a hundred small Saddams in Kurdistan," says mullah...
...were confronted by Public Safety officers, who said they had viewed the online photos, according to the article. “If we are investigating a case that involves campus safety or security or the safety of a member of our community, we have an obligation to use every tool available to try to bring that investigation to some conclusion,” said Steven J. Healy, the director of Princeton’s Public Safety. Public Safety Deputy Director Charles Davall initially denied last month that his department uses Facebook in investigations, but told the Princetonian last week that...
...civil rights and criminal law suggest that consent can be tainted if officers are misleading.And although undergraduates in college dormitories are subject to administration searches, experts say that university police departments—even private ones like HUPD—must in almost all cases obtain warrants.ELEPHANTS IN A TOOL BOXThe HUPD policy on searches is in line with that of other police department policies but does operate on a case-by-case basis.“HUPD officers may enter a student’s room with consent, a warrant or by a recognized exception to the warrant requirement...
...spent five years traveling and working. During that time, he came to realize how genuinely interested he was in film, and ended up studying film at MIT. He began working in non-fiction film, finding that “documentary filmmaking is a way to explore the world, a tool to think about the world.” Moss came to Harvard nearly 20 years ago to teach. Rather than curtail or diminish his personal filmmaking career, Moss says that being at the University has provided for him “another way to be a part of the world...
...describes how students were already debating about slavery during Commencement in 1773, how U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, revolutionized the rules for modern football based on his undergraduate experiences, and how University President James B. Conant, Class of 1914, helped pioneer the now-ubiquitous SAT as a tool for determining Harvard’s National Scholarships...