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Members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church, an organization started by anti-gay activist Fred W. Phelps, flew to Cambridge from their native Kansas to protest a Harvard Law School (HLS) committee established to study offensive speech at that school...
According to church member Shirley Phelps-Roper—daughter of Fred Phelps and a constitutional lawyer, like 11 of her 12 siblings, several of whom were also present—the demonstrators were there to protest Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz’s leadership of an HLS group looking at an anti-harassment code...
Topeka-based minister Fred Phelps has been in the national spotlight for his group’s staunch opposition to homosexuality and frequent protests with strongly-worded signs. After commencement, the Westboro Baptist Church picketed the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, which was preparing to rule in a case concerning same-sex marriage...
...help revive growth at battered Schering-Plough, Cox, 45, has been hired to head its global pharmaceutical group. She held a similar position at Pharmacia, where she built global sales, boosting Celebrex to a $3 billion brand. A trained pharmacist, Cox joins another recent Pharmacia recruit, CEO Fred Hassan, with whom she worked to revive that firm before it was bought by Pfizer earlier this year. Hassan and Cox face big challenges, which include declining profits, lost patents and a federal investigation into sales and marketing practices...
...Krens, "but every once in a while we'd like some consideration ... because it's a space we own and have in- vested in." He lobbied mightily for Matthew Barney, whose multimedia solo show at the New York Guggenheim this spring won lavish praise. But the State Department chose Fred Wilson, whose installation about Africans in Venice through the ages has been panned by the critics. One even suggested that the best reason to visit the U.S. pavilion was the air conditioning. You'd never guess any of this from Krens' demeanor in Venice. At the Biennale...