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Congress Extends Library Provision of Patriot Act to 2011
From: American Libraries
The U.S. House of Representatives sent Pres. Obama a bill extending three often-contested provisions of the Patriot Act on the evening of February 26, two days before the sections were due to expire. Approved by a vote of 315–97 the night after the Senate passed the bill by voice vote, H.R. 3961 extends until February 28, 2011 the surveillance sections, which have prompted repeated statements of concern from library organizations and civil-liberties groups. The president is expected to sign the legislation. [UPDATE: Pres. Obama signed H.R. 3961 into law February 27.]
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Board Confuses Authors of 'Brown Bear,' 'Ethical Marxism'
From Inside Higher Ed
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/25/qt#218349
The Texas Board of Education, worried that a scholar's book about Marxism might infiltrate a portion of the state's third grade curriculum, accidentally has removed from an approved list work by the author of the popular children's book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, The Dallas Morning News reported. The intended target was Bill Martin, a professor of philosophy at DePaul University, who offended some Texas board members with his book Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation. But the board accidentally removed work by Bill Martin Jr., author of Brown Bear.
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