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...argument in favor of the Patriot Act’s surveillance provisions is that not subjecting private records to scrutiny creates a safe haven for ne’er-do-wells and that those who are doing nothing wrong have nothing to fear. But it strikes me as absurd, and even somewhat insulting to the investigative talents of FBI agents, to suggest that the government needs to compromise civil rights in order to catch the terrorists in our midst...
...researchers? I don’t recall the last time an act of terrorism was perpetrated with the help of LexisNexis. Unless the Patriot Act presumes to also prevent plagiarism, the only thing the FBI’s snooping at Harvard seems likely to prevent is academics feeling safe in conducting their own research, particularly in fields that are rightly becoming the focus of new expansion of the University’s academic horizons...
...Safe Community Partnership...
...furious. Cruz balances screwball humor and a little vulgarity (there are fart jokes) with a screen-goddess glamour that can't be faked. "Pedro says I have a dark side," Cruz says, "and I know he does. Maybe that's another thing that connects us. I never feel completely safe next to him." Almodóvar and Cruz interrupt each other constantly, sometimes in Spanish, sometimes in English. "I feel like a couple who are friends, but they could be more," Almodóvar says. "They are in that level where they can go another step. It can go on forever...
Ever since Woodrow Wilson draped foreign policy with a mantle of idealism by declaring that the U.S. should enter World War I to make the world safe for democracy, American leaders have tended in public to stress the idealist elements of the mix when justifying a foreign involvement. That's what President Bush's father did during the first Gulf War when he emphasized, rightly, the moral justifications for defending Kuwait against Iraq's aggression. But James Baker made a gaffe (defined by Michael Kinsley as a politician accidentally saying something true) by stating the obvious, which was that Kuwait...