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...Harvard women’s squash team (6-0, 3-0 Ivy) opened the second half of its season in style, scoring an impressive 7-2 upset win over No. 3 Trinity (8-1) last night at the Barnaby Courts. The victory marked the first win for the Crimson over the Bantams in two years and avenged a 6-3 setback in the first round of last season’s Howe Cup.With top flight sophomore June Tiong out with a back injury, Harvard coach Satinder Bajwa was forced to shuffle his lineup with the majority of the team playing...
Within weeks, a Wisconsin state attorney brought charges of reckless endangerment against Kara's parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann. The couple protested on grounds of religious freedom, but Judge Vincent Howard of Marathon County Circuit Court ordered Mr. and Mrs. Neumann to stand trial this spring. If convicted, each faces up to 25 years in prison. Unleavened Bread Ministries immediately released a statement saying the couple is being unfairly punished for the "crime of praying." (Read the top 10 religion stories...
...says Dr. Lorry Frankel, a professor at the Stanford School of Medicine and author of Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatrics. "We respect people's religious beliefs and try to compromise, but we won't deny treatment that will save lives." Frankel says he's taken Jehovah's Witnesses to court in the past when they've refused blood transfusion for their children in life-threatening cases. "The judge invariably rules in our favor and I've never had a child denied care," says Frankel...
Four weeks to begin an investigation into a massive corporate scandal is a long delay even by the standards of India's sluggish judicial system. That's nearly how long it took for the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to get permission from the country's highest court to question the men who were running Satyam Computer Services, India's embattled information technology giant, over the company's $1 billion accounting fraud...
...Following a Feb. 3 Supreme Court ruling, officials from SEBI now have access to jailed Satyam founder and chairman Ramalinga Raju, his brother Rama Raju, and former chief financial officer Srinivas Vadlamani. Although the men are in police custody and face criminal charges, SEBI, the country's stock market regulator, is the only Indian body with the expertise to investigate allegations that Satyam officials used Byzantine accounting chicanery involving illegal transfers of money between hundreds of shell companies, possible insider trading, money laundering, and other acts to inflate the company's profits and defraud shareholders...