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...wallet to the storm’s victims, matching donations to charities engaged in aid and restoration of New Orleans, accepting 25 displaced students from New Orleans colleges for the fall semester, and waving tuition for these students. Harvard should be commended for its charitable contributions in the aftermath of this tragedy...
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...with crime and rowdiness. This stereotype was most tragically evinced following the 1923 Tokyo Earthquake, when rumors about Korean residents committing acts of sabotage led to mob violence and numerous fatalities. As recently as 2000, right-wing Tokyo Governor Ishihara Shintaro warned of foreigners creating civil disorder in the aftermath of an earthquake. Though the vast majority of the public rejected the comments, they struck a chord with some. Given this history, the new Japanese fingerprinting law cannot help but have some very unpleasant connotations. It could, in effect if not in intent, strengthen xenophobia and play into the hands...
Complicating matters for city hurricane planners is the current state of the city's emergency workers, with police and fire employees largely working out of trailers--about the worst place to be in a hurricane. Unlike the police, which had scores of defections in the aftermath of Katrina, the fire department had none. But of the 600-plus firefighters, 100 are out sick on any given day, much of it ascribed to Katrina-related illnesses, says Superintendent Charles Parent. To avoid a repeat of last year's looting, Police Superintendent Warren Riley has promised that the city's cops will...
...annual pro-pot rallies on April 20--a high holy day for marijuana lovers, since the number 420 is linked to cannabis use--always cause consternation among officials at the University of Colorado at Boulder, as on other campuses across the U.S. But it's the aftermath of this year's event that's proving the real downer. Three students last week announced plans to sue CU, asserting that efforts to stop the rally violated their civil rights...