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...have a soft spot for the Fordham maroon, four years of following the Crimson on the ice, court, track, field and water have made me a loyal Crimson Crazy.There’s no escaping Fordham. After completing my last final exam of college, I turned on my cell phone to find a text message from an old high school friend—he was in the middle of graduation ceremonies at Fordham. I thought of the Rose Hill campus, how green Edward’s Parade might look in front of Keating Hall, adorned with bunting and banners...
...you’re a bit surprised to see me here,” the man said quite lucidly, as the crew approached him, according to Osborne.“I thought I was hallucinating for a second,” said Osborne in a phone interview, recalling these details from his hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.The man was 50-year-old Australian mountaineer Lincoln Hall. He was suffering from High Altitude Cerebral Edema caused by low levels of oxygen. Hall had summited the day before, but had started acting delusional on the descent. Hall’s Tibetan guides tried...
...Crimson, I’ve always written about things I appreciate.First, I wrote about the benefits of the First-Year Outdoor Program (FOP), and how it eases the transition to college life. Then, my close relationship with my mother inspired me to write a piece about incessant phone calls and the necessity of communication. After junior parents weekend, I envisioned what my roommates would be like as adults coming back to our 30th reunion. Then, this year, I wrote about my favorite place at Harvard—Mather House—and the importance of the dorm?...
TIME reported that the National Security Agency (NSA), with help from phone companies, has been tracking the calls of tens of millions of Americans--in secret, without a warrant and without Congress's approval [May 22]. President George W. Bush will never stop al-Qaeda by spying on innocent Americans. In addition to being a waste of resources, that expansion of government power invades our privacy and tramples our freedoms. It must be stopped. If our government continues to spy on ordinary citizens, then the terrorists will have succeeded in eroding our liberty...
...doesn't matter whether the pollsshow that the American people do or do not support the NSA's monitoring of Americans' phone calls. It matters only that such actions violate the Constitution, specifically the Fourth Amendment, which requires probable cause and warrants for such investigations. The Founding Fathers never said the Bill of Rights had to pass a popularity test in order to be enforced. The phones of suspected terrorists have been and should continue to be monitored--with court supervision. Without such oversight, the possibility for abuses of private information is very real...