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...Harvard’s definitely one of the best places to be out,” says Ryan R. Thoreson ’07, outgoing co-chair of today’s Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance, although he does admit to feeling intimidation around campus on account of his sexuality.Last April, a gay undergraduate was reportedly punched in the head and chest around campus after he confronted two local men who were shouting homophobic and anti-Semitic insults. Hundreds of students rallied in his support.“I feel like the administration in general operates with...
...said that he may take next year off from Harvard in order to write about his climb—and his decision to turn back. He says the book will be similar to Jon Krakauer’s bestseller “Into Thin Air,” an account of a climber’s experience in the deadliest season for Mount Everest.The current season marked the second deadliest ever after the one chronicled by Krakauer, with 10 climbers confirmed dead so far.But to Osborne, the greatest challenge was not the physical danger, but the mental discipline...
...criminal investigation, which will probably produce charges against Marines for committing slayings, is expected to extend into the summer. Three months after TIME published the first account of the incident, new details about the events leading up to the fateful morning in Haditha have shed light on why a small group of Marines apparently abandoned all semblance of self-restraint in a deadly burst of vengeance. But other questions are likely to remain--about who bears ultimate responsibility for the killings, about other possible incidents of military misconduct in Iraq and about whether the U.S. can do anything to stop...
...Haditha killings occurred last November, but it wasn't until January that TIME first heard whispers about them. The initial account of the incident was published in March in the magazine and on TIME.com The manner in which TIME got the story and the painstaking way the facts revealed themselves illustrate the challenges of trying to cover a dangerous, deadly conflict where the truth isn't always what it appears...
...says Khaled Raseef, the spokesman for the Haditha victims' kin. Whatever they think of the Marines, Raseef says he was impressed with the thoroughness with which the U.S. military has investigated the killings. As of last week, he says, nobody from the Iraqi government had contacted him for an account of what happened...