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...last three years of going to public hearings, Tom Lucey...always spoke out in favor of big developers, and always spoke out against neighborhood wishes,” said Cob Carlson, a Riverside activist. “His track record matches Harvard in dealing with neighborhoods. It is a predictable pick on their part but it’s a terrible pick for neighborhoods...
...department wants to move ahead [with a prospective hire], they have to get a lot of testimony from the outside world—in this case Americanists, nationally and internationally—about the appointment,” Buell said. “All of that was strong in favor...
...mulling it over - both affirmative action opponents and supporters agree that this ruling firmly entrenches affirmative action in the law, at least until there is a radical change in the membership of the Court. For most colleges, the decision means that they can maintain their current admissions processes, which favor black, Hispanic and Native American applicants to ensure racial diversity. When the suits were filed, a few colleges stopped considering race at all in the admissions process, and it's likely they will adopt affirmative actions programs similar to that of the Michigan Law School. In addition, in Texas, Louisiana...
...that, some reports say, Moussaoui was not involved. Federal prosecutors last week--arguing that the threat to national security of allowing Moussaoui to question Binalshibh outweighs Moussaoui's rights as a defendant--asked an appellate court in Richmond, Va., to reverse the judge's ruling in Moussaoui's favor. "Of course it should be permissible" for Moussaoui to question Binalshibh, says former prosecutor E. Lawrence Barcella. "But post-9/11, they're looking at this as war, not justice...
...Since taking office in February, Roh, a former human-rights lawyer, has filled top NIS posts not with professional spy chasers but with left-leaning prot?g?s who, like him, favor peaceful dialog with militaristic North Korea. The agency's new director is former human-rights lawyer Ko Young Koo, who fought to get Kim Nak Joong, the aforementioned scholar, released a decade ago. "We need someone who will set the agency straight," Roh told his Cabinet in late April. New management is just the beginning. Under a reform blueprint announced last month, the agency's domestic-spying operations will...