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'Times' editor on balancing safety and freedom

On a cold December morning last year, The New York Times Washington Bureau chief, Philip Taubman, was personally asked by the president not to publish a story revealing the existence of a secret domestic eavesdropping program.




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Slavery cartoon To the Editor: A recent cartoon, drawn by artist Abdi Farah, ("Opinion Art," DP, 11/6/06) depicts Uncle Sam and a college professor, accompanied by a chained African American slave, glaring at Amy Gutmann. Uncle Sam points and says, "We knew the always progressive Penn would eventually support terrorism!" In the forefront, Amy Gutmann stands confidently, while a benevolent Ben Franklin comes to her defense.


Now entering the game.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The departure of Fran Dunphy and the hiring of Glen Miller presented two distinct problems for Penn's bench players.




Nanotech Pie

Nanotech Pie

By Uri Friedman and Leanne Ta · Nov. 14, 2006

How it's done Today a parking lot; tomorrow a nanotechnology research building that could cost upwards of $80 million. That, in a nutshell, is the present and future of a space near 33rd and Walnut streets. The lot, which sits next to the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, is slated to hold the new facility as part of Penn's eastward expansion.



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Big Ten basketball fans beware - Randy Wittman is back. No, not the Randy Wittman who won a national championship with Indiana in 1981 and was the Big Ten Player of the Year two years later - his son, Randy Scott Wittman, a freshman guard at Cornell.


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Up against a wall

By Zoe Tillman · Nov. 14, 2006

The stucco wall on the west side of the Kappa Sigma fraternity house is, to be blunt, ugly.



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Before Cornell clinched its third straight Ivy League championship, it battled through a tough challenge from Penn. Following the 3-1 loss to the Big Red, the Quakers won their second match of the New York road trip on Saturday by defeating last-place Columbia, 3-0.