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...President Bush signed the Campus Security Act, a federal law intended to make statistics on campus crime available to college communities and potential students and faculty...
Cleary's parents learned soon after that the quaint Pennsylvania campus had been the site of 38 violent offenses in the three years before her death, and began pushing for legislation requiring disclosure of campus crime statistics, which led to the 1990 act...
...department is required by Massachusetts law and the Cleary Act to maintain a daily log available for public inspection...
...words in the dictionary. Her line that she found "Republican" right between "reptile" and "repugnant" was a an easy crowd-pleaser, but seemed oddly incongruous in the new Lieberman era. Salma Hayek was so enthused with saying "Al Gore rocks!" that she walked offstage forgetting to introduce the next act, and had to dash back to announce Jon Bon Jovi. Perhaps the most enthusiastically received line of the night came from the boyish Matt Damon who equated George Bush with Fredo from the "Godfather" movies. "And they wouldn't even let him run the family business...
Congress helped set off the deal-making avalanche last year by doing away with the Glass-Steagall Act, a Depression-era law that made it illegal for commercial banks to underwrite stocks, bonds and insurance. That removed obstacles to the merger of Travelers Group, an insurance and brokerage behemoth, with Citicorp, one of the nation's largest banking companies...