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Around the same time of Kemeny’s inauguration, Harvard Law student James Youngblood Henderson, was preparing a memorandum charging that Harvard “unjustly enriched the University, at the expense of the American Indian,” according to a senior history thesis by Ethel B. Branch ’01. He subsequently brought his case to the Massachusetts Attorney General, who later ruled that the case should not be brought to court. Branch interviewed Henderson, who argued that the case was dropped because of fears about Harvard’s negotiating power, according to the thesis...
...With human-rights groups expressing outrage at the crackdown, the protesters smell victory and are in no mood to compromise, even if the King were to extend an olive branch. "It's time we consider republicanism the core issue of our movement," declared protest leader Gagan Thapa. And so the violent confrontations seem destined to continue. Increasingly, the question is not whether Nepal is becoming a failed state. Rather, it is just how grim that failure might...
Students selected to serve as presidential instructional teaching fellows— one branch of the initiative—will help to “configure and deploy” existing website teaching aids—some of them already pioneered by professors on campus, Moriarty said...
...Bangladeshis live in an overwhelmingly corrupt feudal state, then the knights errant of the system are widely believed to be the nation's policemen. According to a survey conducted by TI's Bangladesh branch, 84% of all respondents who had interacted with the police said they encountered corruption when dealing with them. When asked about this finding, Dhaka police commissioner Ashraful Huda doesn't deny that corruption exists in the force, but says, "We take severe punitive measures against any policeman found guilty of corruption." Though ordinary Bangladeshis have little faith in their police, they also believe the cops...
Dave Rosgen, his smile shaded from the midday sun by the brim of his cowboy hat, moves easily along a branch of the main channel of Colorado's Blue River, casting his fly rod. One after another, big rainbow trout take his flies, jumping and fighting the line until he plays each one out to the bank, removes the hook and gently returns the fish to the clear, cold water. Rosgen, a hydrologist, helped bring this stretch of river back to life. The land along the water here had been hammered by years of cattle grazing, the banks eroded after...