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...Fourteen programs, all of which are taught by the Harvard faculty, are being offered this year in locations such as Paris, Beijing, Oxford, and Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Venice will be the home of program offerings in economics and environmental science, while previously neglected science concentrators can head to Bonn to conduct life sciences research under the tutelage of Harvard faculty. We applaud the College for making progress in increasing not only the number of sites but also the diversity of course offerings, and hope that Harvard uses this as a stepping stone to expand term-time and, potentially, J-term abroad...
...considered legitimate to protect individuals, while other restrictions, such as those that regulate obscenity, supposedly protect social standards. Even in the ultra-tolerant U.S., with its fiercely guarded tradition of First Amendment rights, the law restricts many forms of utterance: among other things, child pornography, language that incites criminal conduct and, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously stated, "falsely shouting fire in a theater." Yet few things have ever challenged accepted notions of free expression so much as the current controversy over religious tolerance and hate speech. Britain last week was a good example of how democracies are struggling...
...SPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT Kofi Annan has joined the International Olympic Committee in calling for an Olympic Truce, a two-week, worldwide cease-fire to honor the cooperative spirit of the Games...
LIKE REALITY TV, ROLLER DERBY mixes contrived personae with real conflict, theatrics with real spills. The women of the Austin, Texas, Lonestar Rollergirls league are equal parts athletes and punk-feminist performance artists (with drag-queeny noms de skate like Venis Envy and Miss Conduct); they wear Catholic-schoolgirl skirts and fishnets and deal out bruising blows. "You can be completely feminine and athletic, threatening and sexy," says a skater of the sport's appeal. Gorgeously shot and structured like a drama, each episode delves into the lives of skaters, some fighting off demons, others blowing off steam. As their...
...group of professors that usually investigates complaints against Faculty members, the Committee on Professional Conduct, operates confidentially. But Abernathy said yesterday that outgoing Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby told him that the committee may be examining the Shleifer case...