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...Romney’s visit to Harvard yesterday was akin to a trip behind enemy lines. In the past year, former Gov. W. Mitt Romney, who received a joint degree from the Business and Law schools in 1975, has criticized his alma mater’s support of stem cell research and repeatedly chided the University’s decision a year ago to host former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, including in a radio ad released just last month. But at a campaign event held last night at Emerson Hall and attended by roughly 30 Romney supporters, Tagg Romney...
...crabapple wasn’t so lucky. Last Friday, Powers, who is listed near the top of the Lampoon’s masthead, called a Crimson reporter’s cell phone at about 10 a.m. and said, “You should go check out the island...
...more benign future, one in which the trend of human-implantable RFID tags merges with the online social-networking craze. What if all the information in your Facebook profile were tucked snugly into a tiny RFID-like chip embedded, say, in the ball of your thumb? Your RFID-enabled cell phone could beep every time you walked past somebody two degrees of separation or less from you or who had the same favorite novel you do or who liked to play Scrabble and wasn't doing anything later. Nightmare or utopia? You decide. And invest in RFID--or aluminum foil...
...ancients had no way of understanding human sexuality the way we understand it,” he told the audience of 10. “This is where science was 200 years ago,” he said, pointing at a picture of a tiny man inside a sperm cell. He argued that the Bible should not be interpreted verbatim, giving the example of levirate marriage, under which a man is compelled to marry his dead brother’s widow. Larose said homosexuals have been singled out and discriminated against on the basis of biblical texts deliberately used...
...year-old, Martin Lee Anderson, and holding their hands over his mouth for as long as five minutes at a time, while the nurse stood by and watched. The jury seemed persuaded by the first and widely discredited autopsy report that blamed the boy's death on a sickle-cell condition, even though a second autopsy ordered by the state had ruled Anderson died from suffocation (the Justice Department has since announced it will investigate whether federal civil rights violations charges should be brought in the case). "It's wrong!" Anderson's mother, Gina Jones, shouted as she stormed...