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...Harvard crew, representing the United States at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, faced a similar dilemma. Their response was to act. On July 24th, five of its members became the first group of competing white athletes to publicly support the Olympic Project for Human Rights, an organization planning to boycott the games in support of black solidarity. On October 20th, after much internal deliberation, the crew did row in the finals. But, as one of the Harvard Athletic Office officials said at the time, "They are Harvard men; you just couldn't expect them to go to the Olympics...
Durano said that Sverdrup & Parcel would not make a final recommendation for many months, and that the firm was soliciting opinions from interested groups. The presentation came in the 24th week of a 38-week study of re-routing the Red-Line through Harvard Square...
...repeatedly watered down before both the House and Senate passed it almost unanimously in July, and easily overrode Governor Sargent's well-publicized veto of the legislation in the last days of the session in August. In its final form, the new law prohibits abortion after the 24th week of pregnancy unless the mother's life is in danger, and requires that women under 18 have the consent of both parents before they can get an abortion. It also requires that all abortions be certified as necessary by a doctor...
...that 1973 decision, implied that this transition occurs at gestational age 24 to 28 weeks, as this is the period when a fetus grows "viable"--when it can live away from its mother. Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun '29 thus ruled that abortions should be allowed through the 24th week of pregnancy, at which point the state's "legitimate interest in protecting the potentiality of human life" would overcome the right of the mother as an individual...
...Massachusetts legislature appeared to endorse this standard when it voted on July 18 to prohibit abortions after the 24th week of pregnancy unless the woman's life is in danger. The doctors' attorneys also appear to accept this definition and in the motions carefully refer to the involved fetuses as "alleged human bodies...