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...Many saw this civil case agreement as major signal that negotiations were moving fast on the criminal plea bargaining front, which may include Madoff's desire to keep his family out of trouble. Of course, Wednesday's revelation regarding Mrs. Madoff's financial withdrawals only raises the likelihood that prosecutors will look closely at family members' actions...
...think of Harvard living through all kinds of crises, ranging from the Revolution to the Civil War to the small pox epidemics,” Faust mused. “I think this moment ranks up there in Harvard’s historical challenges...
...late at night on January 19, I put on three pairs of pants, grabbed our precious, fancy-looking tickets and some American flags, and we hit the road. When multiple detours finally brought us to our section’s entrance at 3:30 a.m., we found a very civil, self-policed line of 60 or so friendly people bundled in coats and sleeping bags. By 4:30 a.m; the situation had devolved into mayhem. A few impromptu community organizers and I attempted to maintain our nice single-file line, but the surprisingly rude police officers refused to help. Thousands...
...wider world. As she spoke at the podium on Monday, clad in purple, a customary symbol of the grape boycott, one could not help but admire her rare yet perfect combination of joyful charisma, fearlessness, and selflessness. She has been arrested 22 times for participating in non-violent civil disobedience strikes, but she still wears a smile that shines with hope, promise, and opportunity...
...overwhelmingly Christian and conservative small town less than an hour's drive north of Chattanooga, Dayton landed the Scopes trial in 1925 after the American Civil Liberties Union announced a search for a teacher willing to challenge a state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution. Town leaders, eager to boost the local economy with the media attention a trial would bring, came up with a 24-year-old science teacher named John Thomas Scopes, who was willing to teach Darwinist theory instead of creationism...