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...record straight, it was the Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" that gave birth to the hominid's name, correct? Yes, the whole camp was listening to Beatles' tape because I was a great Beatles fan, and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was playing and this girl said, well if you think the fossil was a female, why don't you name her Lucy? Initially I was opposed to giving her a cute little name, but that name stuck. (See pictures of the Beatles' final performance together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: 'Lucy' Discoverer Donald C. Johanson | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...prognosticators are correct, the International Criminal Court (ICC) will issue its first arrest warrant for a sitting head of state on Wednesday afternoon. That's when the court will announce whether Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir ought to stand trial on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for his alleged role in orchestrating the Darfur conflict. Regardless of what one makes of the idea of international justice, an arrest warrant would be a historic move that many human-rights experts believe will further erode that sense of impunity shared by dictators the world over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan's President Could Be Indicted over Darfur | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...proposed new name for the organization would be the “College Queer Students and Allies.” In fact, it would be the "Harvard College Queer Student and Allies." The article also incorrectly referred to the organization by the acronym BLGTSA on one instance. The correct acronym is BGLTSA...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BGLTSA Debates New Name | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...about gay men” in the Portland Mercury in 2007: “You can't trust them with your young.” In doing so, Adams reverted to a stereotype about stereotyping and became the boy who cried bigot. I would venture that Adams was indeed correct in his assumption that bigotry would inform the media’s treatment of his alleged affair. Whereas older men who hit on younger women are thought of as sleazy (read: Bill Clinton), men who solicit young men are dubbed “lewd?...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Hypocrisy on Tap | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...obviously reflecting badly on Will, this incident also concerns the staff of the Post. The value of an established institution like the Washington Post is the trust its readers place in it. When someone reads an issue of the Post, they expect that the factual assertions contained therein are correct because of the Post’s reputation. By printing a column that the most rudimentary fact-checking would have exposed as fatally flawed, the Post has broken that trust...

Author: By Dylan R. Matthews | Title: To Tell the Truth | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

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