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...other perhaps seems more appropriate, but equally unnecessary. Here we are in the 21st century and in case you hadn’t received the memo, women are now men’s profound equals in the academy—indeed, more than equals in some instances, like in the matter of what qualifications one must possess to be admitted into graduate study in the sciences...
...asking for leniency, in the form of a sentence no longer than 36 months in prison, even as library officials say Smiley has yet to fess up to all of his thefts. Smiley, who admittedly stole a total of 97 maps from a number of libraries, submitted a memo to the Connecticut U.S. District Court on Tuesday asking for leniency in the Sept. 27 sentencing proceeding. But in addition to the eight Harvard-owned maps Smiley has admitted to stealing, there are still five maps missing from Houghton, and Harvard College Libraries spokeswoman Beth Brainard said she thinks Smiley...
...idea was to dare Democrats to oppose those counterterrorism measures, they were on to the trick. In a private memo to Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Jan. 31, his staff laid out the danger in mounting too aggressive a criticism of the freshly disclosed National Security Agency's espionage program: "National security issues are the only issues propping up President Bush. Democrats in general cannot permit themselves to be characterized as being weak on terrorism. We must make it clear that Democrats believe the terrorist threat must be dealt with forcefully and effectively." With that in mind, Democrats were...
...Conservatives, under their new telegenic leader David Cameron, were ahead in a recent poll by 9 points, which is shocking to a Labour Party that has been ahead for more than a decade, and many Labour activists are worried about regional elections scheduled for the spring. A Downing St. memo leaked earlier this week reinforced backbench MPs' conviction that waiting any longer for Blair to go voluntarily could be dangerous; it showed his loyalists inhabiting a dream world where they planned to orchestrate a triumphal exit lasting many months, including appearances on children's TV shows, overnight stays in half...
...memo also discusses how a thread of information revealed by one detainee would be used as leverage or leads for questioning another, often in rapid succession. The documents assert that numerous plots have been killed in their crib and many dangerous operatives have been put out of commission based on information gleaned from interrogations...