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After the Yale Freshman Class Council (FCC) announced this design as the winner of a class-wide vote, some concerns were raised by the Yale LGBT Cooperative about the derogatory use of the word "sissy." Then the administration was consulted and more voting took place, and the shirt design, as reported by the Yale Daily News on Nov. 19, was pulled. A boring H in a circle with a line through it would take its place...
Christopher Caldwell's Viewpoint on Judge Sonia Sotomayor and affirmative action reflected a lack of insight. I graduated recently as the only Latina in my medical-school class, and understand, in a way Caldwell will never be able to, that the stories of President Obama, Sotomayor and myself are possible only because of the propping up of affirmative-action laws by empathetic judges...
...TIME's Alex Perry wrote in July 2009, over the past few years, young Nigerian Muslim activists, most of them educated and from the middle class, have aggressively embraced a stricter version of Islam, rejecting anything Western and Christian. In the middle of 2009, the government cracked down hard on one group nicknamed the Nigerian Taliban - officially called Boko Haram - killing its leader and scores of his followers. Boko Haram had begun life in 2001 as a peaceful group focused on the study of the Koran, according to Abdulmumin Sa'ad, a Muslim scholar and professor of sociology...
...complaint, one passenger saw the remains of a partly melted syringe in Abdulmutallab's possession and took it away from him, shook it to stop it from smoking and threw it on the floor of the aircraft. Abdulmutallab was then placed in a headlock and pulled into the first-class section. "He didn't show any reaction to pain, any feeling of shock or nervousness," one female passenger who sat across from Abdulmutallab told television reporters after the plane landed, shortly before noon. Abdulmutallab was taken to a hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich...
...everyone, however, is complaining. The very first class of students from Siribopura's new school will take the main government exam in December. "We are very happy. We have a new school, new friends, and the sea is far away," says one beaming student, Thilini Sara. (The school still runs a special counseling program for its students to get over the trauma caused by the waves.) Ajith Priyantha, a fishing boat operator tending his nets on the Hambantota fishing harbor, is also grateful for the help. "We got boats and nets. It was easy for us to get back...