Word: allowed
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...while Juan Miguel Gonzalez may be enjoying his sojourn with his family as a guest of the U.S. government at Andrews Air Force Base and, perhaps later, at the Wye River Plantation, it's not inconceivable that he may tire of the legal process and petition the court to allow him to take Elian and the rest of his family home to Cuba. Elian is currently bound by an injunction imposed by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to remain in the country until the judges rule, in mid-May, on the application for asylum filed on his behalf...
Also defeated was a contentious amendment proposed by David B. Orr '01 and Jeffrey A. Letalien '01 which would allow certain council members to serve as voting members on more than one of the council's three standing committees...
...prolonged discussion forced yet another postponement of the date the board will offer a verdict on Harvard's proposal--a decision that would allow or prevent the construction of a building more than two years in the planning...
Technology may soon make the decision in this particular lawsuit obsolete; new programs known as "Gnutella" and "FreeNet" may allow the Napster-like sharing of all types of data, not just MP3 files, and such services would be difficult to shut down because they would not rely, as does Napster, on a central server for searches. However, if carried to its conclusion, the spirit in which the lawsuit was filed would make universities into electronic gatekeepers, watching each packet of data sent across the network and monitoring students' activities online for fear of being held legally responsible...
Such a role is incompatible with a university's mission to promote academic and intellectual freedom. Harvard University has already expressed its well-founded intent to continue to allow Napster use, and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 has rightly written that "content filtering would be wholly incompatible with the principle of free inquiry and open access to information...