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Nevertheless, we urge the Commission to review its policies and provide for the quick approval of extended hours. There is no need for several weeks of review for each request, especially in the case of House parties such as Leverett’s “’80s Dance” and “Pfoho54” that are held on weekend nights, and House committees should not have to spend time finding ways to evade the Commision’s overzealous scrutiny...
Muirhead says he scrutinizes each request to see if the instructor has a Ph.D. in political science or a related field, whether readings are drawn from scholarly work in government-related disciplines (which he prefers) or newspapers and magazines, whether the written work is similar to FAS-style assignments, and whether the government department offers a similar class...
...Cambridge License Commission turned down a request by Mian Iftikhar, the new owner of Tommy’s House of Pizza, to restore the establishment’s closing hour from 2 to 3 a.m. The decision came after a hearing in which three local residents complained of late-night noise. The closing time of Tommy’s, which was 3 a.m. prior to this spring, has long been a point of contention between nearby residents and the different owners of the pizzeria, but the commission has only now decided to permanently curtail the establishment’s hours...
...attacks, American officials have pleaded for hard information (phone numbers, addresses, travel itineraries) on one of the men, Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian citizen suspected to have been the designated suicide bomber for a planned attack on the American embassy in Paris. Belgian officials say the U.S. did not properly request the Trabelsi dossier until Sept. 27. It took weeks after that, they say, to scan the documents, which were "the thickness of seven phone books," onto CDs and finally hand them over, on Oct. 12. Initially, though, the discs were useless; the Belgians had password-protected them and neglected...
...said that a request from Barrios to preserve the district—even though he personally was leaving—would have “had weight” with...