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...President should be more respectful of individual rights and the separation of powers. Any important wire tap needs to be approved by the appropriate court, a simple but vital check on the authority of government officials. We citizens are sacrificing too much because of the Bush Administration's lust for unchecked power. JERRY BORROWMAN Sandy, Utah...
...England Press Association, the Society Professional Journalists, the Associated Collegiate Press. We are grateful for that show of support, particularly because it underscores the national significance of the problem. I will keep you updated on our progress working with the legislature. Accessing these records continues to be a vital issue to our reporting, and I have confidence that we will make progress proceeding through the legislative route. I would very much like Crimeds to get involved in lobbying the legislature. Please get in touch with me or President Elect Will Marra (wmarra@fas.harvard.edu), if you would like to help out. Thanks...
Educational choices are very important, and the innovations underway in graduate education at Harvard—for example, the Zuckerman and Reynolds Fellowships—are vital. But individual students at the College, and at all of the graduate schools, should know, too, that they will have exciting opportunities over the full course of their careers, not just at the outset, to lead across sectors...
DIED. JOHN DIEBOLD, 79, technology prophet whose 1952 book, Automation, argued that programmable devices would become vital everyday tools for businesses; in Bedford Hills, N.Y. An adviser to AT&T and IBM, he came up with his then-radical idea while serving as a World War II merchant marine, by observing the primitive self-correcting technology of antiaircraft control systems on ships...
...that the rest were, “too d-baggy to work with,” even though they had yet to meet any of them. We’re glad to welcome Conroy aboard, whose newly acquired knowledge of poop, toilets, and striking out with women will prove vital to the morale of the board...