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...Lorand Matory ’82 and law professor Alan M. Dershowitz. Matory has claimed that critics of Israel like himself “tremble in fear” from repercussions for their views and urged his colleagues to pass a one-sentence affirmation of “civil dialogue.” While that motion was postponed indefinitely yesterday, the debate continued between Matory and Dershowitz over Harvard’s handling of issues that concern Israel and Palestine. Dershowitz, who told a colleague before the meeting, “I’m here to be silent...
...Advocates of British penal reform say that as Asbos are granted in a civil court, in which the burden of proof is lower, police often secure senseless orders. In a much-cited example, a depressed woman who tried to drown herself in the River Avon was given an Asbo in 2005 forbidding her from jumping into rivers. Others question the efficacy of the some 4000 Asbos granted each year; a 2006 poll by MTV Europe found that a third of young people see Asbos as a badge of honor...
...first member of his family to enter college and later married a woman he had known since he was fifteen. When he was offered a job at the number-one NBC affiliate in the United States, he flew South and found himself right in the middle of the civil rights campaign. Brokaw’s personal story soon blended into a national one beginning with a large “Boom”—the shooting of Kennedy.“That was the beginning of the ‘60s for me—when...
...body's opportunity to rest and repair what the day has wrought, and if your heart is working at its 3 p.m. rate when the clock hits 3 a.m., it's simply going to wear out faster. In the new study, epidemiologist Jane Ferrie questioned 7,700 British civil servants about their sleep habits over an eight-year period and found that those who slept six to eight hours nightly at the beginning of the study but decreased the amount of rest they got by the end of it increased their risk of dying from heart disease 110%. "When...
...anyone would want to strike the law office is another point of mystery. Though early press reports stated the office had handled cases linked to Corsican nationalists - suggesting the possibility of their organizations' settling scores - French justice authorities later denied that information. Instead the practice handled civil cases and specialized in real estate transactions. That focus also ran counter to involvement by two other possible perpetrators: Mafia elements, and extremist groups backed by foreign secret services providing expert explosive assistance...