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Sharply attired in a slim-fitting black suit and stylish thick-rimmed glasses, Matthew B. Kaiser folds his elbows neatly on his desk. For a professor who leads a class on crime and horror, his Barker Center office is strikingly cheery. The plush red rug matches the pillows arranged on the sumptuous couch and the lamp that sits atop one of the full bookshelves lining the walls...
...Harvard and other deep-pocketed universities grapple with shrinking endowments by halting construction projects and freezing salaries, smaller schools that have no safety cushions are struggling to keep the lights on and the water running - literally. Morris Brown, a historically black school founded by freed slaves 22 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, found itself facing $380,000 in overdue water bills in December, prompting the city to dry up service to the campus. Without short-term loans to pay off some of its millions in debt, Morris Brown announced, it would have to close for the spring and possibly forever...
...describing his upbringing by a mother who picked cotton in the South, before moving to Washington, and refusing to take welfare because "she didn't want the government to raise her children." He recalled attending his first Lincoln Day dinner 23 years ago, in Maryland, and how, as a black man, "I didn't get the warmest reception." Friends, he said, had warned: "'They don't like black folks. Republicans, they're mean.' I thought about that, I said, that's not the party of Lincoln. So I decided to get even - and get involved...
...city on what used to be called the Highway of Death. We passed through several checkpoints on the way that were manned by the Iraqi army and in one case by Ministry of the Interior forces. In each case, the guards waved us through. Above, a pair of Black Hawk helicopters crossed the sky. (See pictures of daily life returning to normal in Baghdad...
Meanwhile, black swastikas have appeared painted on many walls of the city of Buenos Aires, including on a monument on Plaza Israel, on Figueroa Alcorta avenue, one of the city's main thoroughfares. The government has said it plans to clamp down on the wave of intolerance and Williamson's expulsion is seen as a gesture by the government to try and allay fears within Argentina's Jewish community. Rabbi Daniel Goldman, a child of Holocaust survivors who sought government action against Williamson, told the Jewish News Agency that "actions such as these clearly show that our people...