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...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 President Drew G. Faust charged an independent, six-member committee with scrutinizing the diversity training and recruitment efforts of the Harvard police force. In the weeks before the announcement, black student and faculty leaders had been pushing for the University to address what they viewed as racial profiling...
...reduced fee lawyering and students with law practice experience, has recently seen its budget cut by roughly a third, and four of its 13 clinics have been relocated to the Law School’s Cambridge campus from Jamaica Plain.Three of the four clinics that moved in mid-August facilitate community business development and comprise the Community Enterprise Project (CEP), and the fourth aids families with children who have been exposed to family violence, according to Elaine McArdle, spokeswoman for HLS’s Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs.LSC’s 37 percent funding cut came...
Brad Fisher, spokesman for DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, says emergency room congestion is a definite concern. Already, the one at his hospital is seeing an increase in patient volume and upper respiratory issues. "Normally, we'd expect to see 180 to 190 patients a day in August, and that's blowin' and goin'," Fisher says, using a local expression for quick in-and-out cases. "The past few days, it's been 220, 262, 240. It's a lot busier than usual. We have those numbers during traditional flu season, but not during shirtsleeve weather...
...death does seem to have brought about a temporary cease-fire, with at least one group that opposes the bill suspending its television advertising. But when Congress returns to Washington in September, few doubt that the war will resume with even greater force in the wake of an August recess that has seen dozens of town-hall meetings disrupted by raucous protests...
...unlike some other world leaders, Pope Benedict has not commented or issued an official communiqué in response to Kennedy's death. The niceties of international diplomacy do not require the Pope to issue a statement on the death of a non-head of state. Earlier in August, when the Senator's sister Eunice was dying the Papal Nuncio to the U.S. delivered a letter to her family saying the Pope was praying for her, her children and her husband. (Read about the Papal response to Ted Kennedy's letter...