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...delivered. Ryan played the leading role in bringing us the Lamont Café this fall after co-writing the bill that brought us a 24-hour Lamont. He went to bat for gender inclusiveness on our campus, finally getting gender identity added to the University’s nondiscrimination code. As one of only two students serving on the Task Force on General Education, he helped shape a new general education proposal to save future generations of Harvard students from the Core. He has staunchly defended student groups, earning group leaders a meeting with the Dean of the Faculty...
...Lakemba is home to the country's best-known mosque and cleric, and also the place associated with Islamist extremists. Lakemba, where the police station was sprayed with gunfire in 1998, is also code for violent misfits in the fantasyland of the State's law and order politics. The Lakemba stigma, says Steve Conlon, principal of St. Therese primary, is evident in a decision by his Catholic school's P&F to scrub the suburb from its organization's name. Unemployment here is high, particularly among boys and men with low levels of education. Families live in small apartments; hope...
...also learning that the adulation she is accustomed to receiving as an entertainer can now sometimes be mixed with a few boos. In June she suffered a political embarrassment when a local newspaper revealed that several properties she owns around Detroit had code violations. Reeves says she has resolved the problems. "Sometimes people like you; sometimes they are ready to throw things at you," she says. "I was used to people cheering for me everywhere I go. My son Eric said, 'Mom, toughen up. It comes with the territory. Stop whining.' So I took his advice." She has not decided...
...said the decision to rescind the lay-offs was “great news” but that it wasn’t enough. “There needs to be an institutionalized accountability, some sort of campus-wide grievance process as part of a larger of code of conduct that embodies the values of equality and respect,” said the member, Adaner Usmani ’08. “We don’t know what would have happened in this case had Jaime, Ruben [Portillo], and the others not had the courage to speak...
...short order, however, it has rebounded to set an industry record by releasing 12 movies that opened in first place. Among them: The Da Vinci Code, Click, The Pink Panther and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. The hit parade has put Sony back atop the box office heap this year, with over $1.3 billion in domestic revenues already on the books and several high-buzz flicks--including the just-released Bond remake Casino Royale and next month's The Pursuit of Happyness starring audience favorite Will Smith as a homeless father--expected to add significantly to that total...