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...move forward anyway. "We have given this a great deal of thought," said Olson, who noted that sitting on the sidelines hardly guarantees that some other plaintiff won't seek his or her own day in court. "Both David and I have seen cases at the Supreme Court brought by people who didn't know what they were doing. We feel we do know what we are doing." (Watch a gay-marriage wedding video...
...cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam. (See pictures of people around the world watching Obama's inauguration...
...Faced with an endowment in free fall in late October, he arranged a meeting with former FAS Dean Henry Rosovsky, who had once weathered a recession of his own at the FAS helm. Smith brought one person with...
...Harvard’s first executive vice president arrived last September fresh from 26 years on Wall Street and brought a personal charm to a position that would require great collaboration across the historically decentralized University. “He has a great sense of humor—very disarming in that way,” says the University’s Chief Financial Officer Daniel S. Shore of his colleague...
...fact, Jahnke hadn't expected to be the only protester in the hall, he told the court. He had brought a whistle only to join in. When Wen - who was, according to Jahnke, greeted by a standing ovation - and his speech went unchallenged, Jahnke decided to go it alone. He was "terrified," he said, and to his surprise, no one supported...