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...group of seven women and one man who put on the mock funeral procession called themselves Women Against the Majority Opinion. They wore black and handed out fliers describing their protest as they walked through the streets of Cambridge. Writing on the side of the coffin said that the aim of the protest was to “put the majority opinion in Gonzales to rest, not women’s rights.” The group planned the protest as the culminating exercise of a seminar on the high court and reproductive rights taught by Janet Benshoof, a lecturer...

Author: By Joanna Naples-mitchell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Law School Students Protest Abortion Decision | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...Crimson writings jumped off the sports page to the front page, and they touched upon the Cold War concerns that would reappear throughout his life work. He reported on the Red Scare that swept the nation in the early 1950s, as Senator Joseph McCarthy and his allies took aim at the “Kremlin on the Charles” and as the newly-inaugurated President Nathan M. Pusey fired back...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'A Very Good College Journalist' | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

Along with the drive to travel this summer, the Crimson men aim to break the Bulldogs’ four-year winning streak in the yearly meet...

Author: By Kara T. Kelley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Looking To Beat, then Join, Yale | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

While the troupe’s aim may be clear, the definition of the word “Asian” is not. Not only does the troupe perform a variety of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean dances, but it also represents and attempts to explain a variety of sub-groups in Asia, as well as divisions within Chinese culture itself...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: East is East, West Is West; Twain Meet | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

...official at Beijing's National Bureau of Statistics, on Thursday addressed the creeping fears that the Chinese economy might be overheating: "One very important lesson we have learned is not to make excessively large policy adjustments, but rather to take small, micro steps, and fine-tune them. The aim is to avoid a hard landing of the economy," Li said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is China's Economy Overheating? | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

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