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...President John S. Haddock ’06 who attended one of the first Trans 101 training sessions.Although the UC nondiscrimination code does not yet include “gender expression,” it has included “gender identity” since 1997, at the behest of Myers. Last week, the UC passed a bill to allow co-educational housing for Harvard undergraduates, and they await the University’s response.“It’s an opportunity to do away with the binary nature of housing at Harvard and to recognize that students...
...homes or power turbines for electricity. The idea is to create a giant bio-digester to make better use of the waste generated by the city's 240,000 pets; Norcal plans to place receptacles in parks in a pilot program scheduled to start within a year, at the behest of city officials. "Some day we're going to be an energy company," says Norcal spokesman Robert Reed. As for the smell, Norcal says the bio-digesting process acts as a deodorizer...
...about two dozen people. Garza told TIME, "We were very happy that Jack Abramoff helped us to be with the President. Bush was in a very good mood--very upbeat and positive." No evidence has emerged that the Bush Administration has done anything for the Kickapoo at Abramoff's behest...
...pinching, he did back expensive dairy price supports-a rich piece of pork to keep his Wisconsin dairy farmers happy. But Prox would fire back that he paid for the transplant and he could move his hair to anywhere he liked. And he backed dairy price supports at the behest of his constituents, not because a lobbyist with a fat campaign check had persuaded him. Proxmire eventually became somewhat of a Senate baron himself, chairing the Banking Committee for six years, where he first opposed then eventually backed a federal bailout for New York City. He surprised us when...
...five months. El Masri said he was tortured, and is now suing the CIA and its former director George Tenet over the incident. Some German opposition figures say Schily and Steinmeier tacitly cooperated with the U.S. policy of secret "renditions" by agreeing to remain silent at Washington's behest. A parliamentary investigation could be launched as early as next week. A separate Council of Europe investigation, meanwhile, is looking into claims that the CIA had bases in several eastern European countries...