Word: powers
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Harvard's Director of Community Relations, Mary H. Power, said that last month the University would continue to have meetings with residents about the museum proposal and will study concerns about traffic impacts and building design...
...deportable immigrants. The cases concern the fate of two legal immigrants scheduled to be deported for serious crimes whose home countries refuse to take them back. Currently, these immigrants reside in legal limbo, unable to live freely in any country. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is seeking the power to incarcerate them indefinitely--after their prison terms have ended--until deportation can be arranged. Though these individuals may have forfeited their right to reside in the U.S., they have not forfeited their rights as human beings. The court should accordingly reject their permanent imprisonment as repugnant to the principles...
...Circuit Court of Appeals has noted that Zadvydas "may in a sense be stateless," the court refused to free him because it is possible that Lithuania or Russia may be persuaded to accept him as a citizen in the future. Moreover, the court concluded, the INS has full power to detain Zadvydas--perhaps forever--until arrangements have been made to send him elsewhere...
...When people think of Harvard, they think of bricks and ivy," says Mary H. Power, Harvard director of community relations...
...screen. "With this, I can access various e-mail accounts and websites, trade stocks, buy goods and pay bills with a single click, using personal and banking information stored in a fraud-proof way," says Gloton, 56, as he removes the "smart card" that gives him these powers and returns it to his wallet. "This card contains a microchip that makes it a veritable minicomputer--with memory and processing power," he goes on. "I can use it with any PC on Earth. It can't be used by anyone else, since only I know the code. It can't even...