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Harvard will create a Safety Advisory Committee and task the University ombudsman with addressing public safety concerns in an effort to improve relations between University police and the community amid long-standing complaints of unfair treatment of black students and professors, University officials announced Friday. The newly adopted measures follow a report examining the Harvard University Police Department’s practices released in April that recommended a series of policy changes to “achieve the shared goal of a welcoming, safe, and open environment.” Following an incident of alleged racial profiling last August, University...
...April 2008, Garrido registered a corporation called Gods Desire at his home address, according to the California Secretary of State. During recent visits to the showroom, Garrido would talk about quitting the printing business to preach full time and gave the impression he was setting up a church, Allen said...
...political - not personal - terms. In 1983, several months after he mistakenly received a fundraising letter from the Moral Majority asking for help battling "ultra-liberals like Ted Kennedy," he accepted an apologetic invitation to speak at Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist College (now Liberty University). The Senator delivered an address on the topic of "Faith, Truth and Tolerance," but it was less a personal discussion of his faith than a chance to prove that he wasn't afraid to show up in the lions' den. In a speech that went after critics in the Religious Right, Kennedy quoted Pope John...
...mark on American politics. On the wall of Kerry's office hangs his invitation to President Obama's Inauguration. In the center of the glass is a handwritten note from Obama. It reads, "I'm here because of you." Kerry, of course, had picked Obama to deliver the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Convention - the speech that launched Obama into superstardom. Kerry decided to endorse Obama in late 2007 and went public in early 2008. After Obama won, Kerry spent several weeks on the short list to be his Secretary of State - a job that ultimately went to Hillary...
...decriminalize possession of small amounts of all major narcotics, including marijuana, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and crystal meth. Anyone caught in Mexico with two or three joints or about four lines of cocaine can no longer be arrested, fined or imprisoned. However, police will give them the address of the nearest rehab clinic and advise them to get clean...