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...earlier verison of the Mar. 11 news article "College Dean Releases Ad Board Report" incorrectly stated the title of David R. Pilbeam as "Interim Dean of the College." In fact, he served as Interim Dean of FAS for a few months in 2007 but was soon thereafter appointed Dean of the College...
...think it’s good that Harvard is doing this now,” says the senior, who hopes to seek sex reassignment surgery within the next few years. “It would’ve been great if they’d been doing it earlier, but it’s still praiseworthy that they’re making this change. This explicitly makes Harvard a more trans-accepting place...
...better explanation is that the Navy failed to move on Graf earlier not in spite of her gender but because of it. Following the Tailhook scandal - in which Navy aviators assaulted dozens of women at a 1991 convention - the service rushed women to sea to show it was no longer locked in the Dark Ages. The service was under political pressure to diversify its leadership, and Graf was part of the answer: the first woman to command both a destroyer and a cruiser. Some veterans believe Graf needed more time to prepare for those commands. "I have some sympathy...
Following the outcry, on Wednesday afternoon, McDonnell issued an executive directive that clarified his earlier executive order, contradicting Cuccinelli's previous statement and specifically prohibiting discrimination "based on factors such as one's sexual orientation...
...attorney general's response was noncommittal: "I applaud Governor McDonnell for the tone he is setting for the Commonwealth of Virginia. I will remain in contact with the Governor and continue to work with him on issues important to Virginians." Cuccinelli, in his earlier directive, had acted on his own accord, building on the governor's previous executive order, but went too far, says a state political analyst who preferred to remain anonymous. The governor's clarification amounted to "a public spanking of Cuccinelli," says the analyst. (Watch a gay-marriage wedding video...