Word: april
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Since the committee’s creation last April, it has been soliciting input from the Harvard community about ways the Cambridge campus could be improved. Citing the need for “additional spaces for cultural, recreational, and social activities...
...Director of News and Public Affairs for the University. They also ask representatives to post the advisories in conspicuous locations on campus in addition to electronically forwarding them widely to students, faculty, and staff. Prior to Monday’s notice, the last advisory was sent out on April 23, detailing an armed robbery that had occurred on Flagg Street and Putnam Avenue. Since 2007, 13 such community advisories have been issued by the police department. CPD public information officials could not be reached for comment yesterday evening. —Staff writer Marianna N. Tishchenko can be reached...
...that the Indus Valley people were functionally illiterate. That hypothesis, which caused a minor uproar in the world of Indus Valley researchers, was recently rejected by a team of mathematicians and computer scientists assembled from institutions in the U.S. and India. That team's study, published initially in April in Science and more extensively in August in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences, employed computer modeling to prove that the Harappan script communicated language, and has reinvigorated attempts to crack what is one of the lingering puzzles of ancient history...
...campaign of violence and intimidation against homosexuals--torturing and murdering growing numbers of men suspected to be gay. Homosexuality is taboo in Iraq, making pinning down a body count nearly impossible. Human Rights Watch--which gathered its information from interviews with Iraqis, activists, journalists and doctors--estimates that through April, hundreds of men were killed. "Murders are committed with impunity," its report noted, "with corpses dumped in garbage or hung as warnings on the street...
...According to an e-mail sent to students this past April by Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds, the application was originally scheduled to be made public...