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Concern is mounting that the US government is using antiterror laws - namely, the Patriot Act - to revive a now-discredited practice common during the cold war: the prevention of foreign intellectuals who are critical of administration policies from entering the country and sharing their views with Americans. The practice, called ideological exclusion, became illegal in 1990. But a recent lawsuit - brought by the American Association of University Professors, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the PEN American Center under the Freedom of Information Act - is asking the Bush administration to explain its decisions to revoke or deny...

February 8, 2008 -- After a savage, bone- snapping beating, young Yovany Tellez had barely the strength to speak his final words to his mother: "I want to go to sleep." Yesterday, a Manhattan jury convicted Zahira Matos, 23, of Harlem, of murder, potentially dooming her to life in prison. Her drunken lesbian lover had actually dealt the boy's death blows, but the jurors found that Matos had, unimaginably, done nothing for five hours or longer as her moaning 23-month-old son lapsed into a coma and died.

A historian and former Sandinista leader who helped overthrow Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza is no longer scheduled to teach classes at Harvard Divinity School this spring after she said she was denied a visa because of her role in alleged "terrorist activity." Since 1998, Tellez has been president of the Sandinista Renewal Movement, a political party allied with the Sandinistas. At Harvard Divinity School, Tellez was scheduled to teach a class on Nicaragua and the Sandinista aftermath, as well as a seminar on Caribbean identity, race, and ethnicity.