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...group of HDS students, led by Rachel Lea Fish, researched the issue and brought their concerns to HDS Dean William A. Graham in March 2003. They alleged that the Zayed Center, established in 1999, had hosted speakers claiming that the Holocaust was perpetrated by Zionists, not Nazis, and that Israel plotted the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. It had also featured less controversial speakers like former President Jimmy Carter and former Vice President Al Gore...
...Fish continued to be active in challenging the gift, writing an op-ed in The Crimson and talking to the national press for stories about the issue...
...Fish hailed the decision as a vindication of her concerns about the gift, although she added that the decision should have been made sooner...
...Sydney, George Pell, is visiting the monastery for the first time this afternoon. "It's a great blessing," says Sister Antoinette excitedly. Otherwise, the day has proceeded calmly for the sisters. For many of them, breakfast was "bread with honey straight from the hive," reports Sister Veronica. And fish for lunch, plus plenty of fruit "and because we don't have meat, we just throw in peanuts for the protein." But no alcohol. As Sister Veronica puts it, "We have a regular life, marked by a moderate austerity...
...cattle station, now part of Lawn Hill National Park - might contain valuable fossils. And it did - in the same way that the Louvre could be said to house some nice paintings. Riversleigh has since provided an annual bounty of exquisitely preserved bones and teeth, the remains of creatures - fish, frogs, crocodiles, turtles, snakes, birds, marsupials, bats - that lived anywhere up to 25 million years ago, when Riversleigh was a thriving rainforest in a cooler, wetter (and more southern) Australia. In so doing, the site has filled in what were once gaping holes in our understanding of the origins of modern...