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Almost exactly fifteen years after the Supreme Court ruled in Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier that high school newspapers could be censored by school districts, Welsh sought to further chip away at the scholastic press by challenging a more difficult target—college journalism...
...Fifteen of the Harvard signatories on this new petition also supported last spring’s petition requesting the University divest from Israeli financial interests—a petition that drew strong criticism from some...
...about that event and sitting by the river at the end of that trip a couple weeks later, and thinking, ‘I left the river to do something,’” he says. “I could see a shape to the previous fifteen years, this sort of shape of my adult choices: trying to make a family, trying to make a career, trying to have life in the world. I was unaware that that’s why I had left the river, but that was clearly the reason...
...China?which already shares borders with nuclear powers India, Pakistan and Russia?facing ancient adversaries armed with weapons of mass destruction on its eastern flank, too. Last month, during a regular meeting of senior foreign ministry diplomats at a luxury compound east of Beijing, a group of about fifteen department heads and other officials discussed a request from Washington that Beijing use its influence to convince Pyongyang to halt nuclear weapons development. According to one of the meeting's participants, "officials suggested cutting energy and food aid, and even opening the border to let more refugees in"?radical moves more...
...Three: Boy, the South is such a different place. At least that’s a world away from Harvard Yard. Anyone hear of the Secret Court of 1920? Nor had I until last month, when Fifteen Minutes published the records of an 82 year-old investigation into homosexuality at Harvard that led to eight students being forced to withdraw from the College. These extraordinary proceedings show clearly how bigotry has been as much a problem in Cambridge as in other parts of the country. The weeds of prejudice have grown not only in distant cotton fields but also...