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...died, at least 400 were arrested and dozens more filled hospitals in the capital, Harare. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was detained for a day and then rearrested later in the week on fresh treason charges. Zimbabwe's Lawyers for Human Rights said it had received reports of arbitrary detentions, assault and torture. While calls for the biggest demonstrations "since independence" failed to spark - soldiers wearing no to mass action T shirts took up positions on Harare's street corners just to make sure - business ground to a halt. Faced with its worst economic meltdown since independence, the government printed "emergency...
...planet so close to ours, Mars has proved strangely inhospitable to earthly visitors. Of the 33 missions to the Red Planet since 1960, 22 have crashed, broken up en route or otherwise failed before they could complete their research. Undaunted, earthlings are launching yet another assault on Mars this month, when no fewer than three spacecraft - two from NASA, one from the European Space Agency (esa) - will take flight. If they deliver on even part of their promise, the missions could go a long way toward explaining the history, geology and - most intriguing - biology of Mars. The trio of ships...
...College’s Administrative Board, which deals with disciplinary and academic infraction, was created in 1890, 53 years before Harvard classes went coed. Now, it renders decisions the most complicated type of case involving men and women: sexual assault...
...grounds that many “he said, she said” cases of sexual assault are too murky to be fully investigated by the Ad Board, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 pushed through a change to Ad Board policy last year, requiring that alleged victims present more evidence before the Board would hear a case. The change ignited a wave of protest from activists on campus and turned a spotlight on the difficulty the University has in adjudicating rape cases and providing the right resources for victims of sexual assault...
Herschbach said the last-minute planning for the $250,000 implementation of the Leaning committee recommendations on sexual assault will complicate next year’s College budget...