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School officials say while the new cell phone policy is not a ban, it is a request that students be more courteous by either turning the phones to vibrate mode or talking outside...
...policy] is more a suggestion, a request to make life more livable. We simply ask that students step a few feet outside," said Eugene C. McAfee, senior tutor of Lowell House...
Four other schools--Harvard, Boston University, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania--have yet to announce their decisions regarding attorney Howard E. King's recent request that they block the service...
...true to form, in July 1997, Reno's staff turned down the FBI's request for permission to search Lee's computer because the agents lacked the "probable cause" evidence required by law. The agency appealed to Reno, who refused to budge. Her decision was correct, but FBI grumbling about it made its way, as many FBI complaints do, to Capitol Hill. There, congressional Republicans who were already angry at Reno for dragging her feet on another probe involving China--the 1997 investigation into the highly creative Clinton-Gore fund-raising practices during the 1996 campaign--began to keep...
...plans to introduce services that are tailored to where a caller happens to be at a particular point in time. New positioning technology means that mobile operators will soon be able to pinpoint a person's location to within 12 yds., helping h2g2 give more precise answers to a request like "Please recommend what to see and do in London...