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REED BRODY, an officer at Human Rights Watch, on the Mo Ibrahim Foundation's decision not to award its annual $5 million prize--the world's largest--for good governance on the continent
It would have been easier to just go along, as so many other judges did. But Wayne, who died Oct. 13 at 89, didn't wink at the law. After receiving handwritten letters from prison inmates describing awful conditions and brutal treatment, he appointed a lawyer to handle the case...
Controversy has swirled around Healy since a May 2008 ruling ordered the city to pay Malvina Monteiro, a former city employee, $4.5 million. Monteiro, who had filed an earlier discrimination complaint against Healy, claimed that he had her fired in 2003 in retaliation. Healy has continued to fight the decision...
This past Monday, a mere 11 days after the application deadline, the College officially granted J-term housing to 1,316 out of the 1,404 undergraduates who applied—yielding a surprisingly high acceptance rate of 93 percent. Given the College’s ambiguous pre-deadline statements...
Originally, the administration had set a 1,000-person cap on the number of students who would be allowed to spend January in Harvard housing. We appreciate the flexibility of the College’s ultimate decision to admit more students who demonstrated legitimate needs (though the actual number on...