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...worked on problem sets together,” said Kiara A. Tulla ’11, also a neurobiology concentrator in Eliot. “She was a really sweet girl, easy to work with.” Just hours after emergency medical personnel surrounded the front of Eliot House on May 3 between 2 and 3 a.m., barring students from entering the House, Master Lino Pertile informed Eliot residents of Joo’s death via e-mail. Later that morning, at around 10:30 a.m., College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds notified all undergraduates of Joo?...
...filing this case, Olson and Boies have moved the gay-marriage debate to the front and - critically - center of American political discourse. For all the successes gay-rights lawyers from the ACLU and other groups have had over the years, they never quite escaped the perception of many Americans that the cause was somehow a fringe concern of primary interest to advocates and opponents. As recently as last year, gay marriage was considered so extreme that no major candidate from either party in the presidential election had any qualms about opposing...
...There are other risks, however. In the wake of the recent California Supreme Court ruling upholding Prop 8, gay-rights activists and others have vowed to put the issue of gay marriage back in front of voters, perhaps by as early as 2010. If they win, gay marriages will resume - a big victory for the movement, but one that would likely halt Olson and Boies' case in its tracks. Since all four plaintiffs in the federal suit are Californians, a victory at the polls would mean they have no claim to pursue...
...campaign alongside Charles T. James ’09-’10 that had Ad Board reform as a central tenet.Richard M. Losick, a biology professor who has been a vocal advocate of Ad Board reform and has served as an advisor to students who have gone in front of the board, agreed that resident deans often serve in a conflicted role.“The resident dean, who is supposed to be neutral, is supposed to be defense and prosecutor,” he said.The representative a student selects will also be able to have some influence...
...drug-smuggling charges that could result in execution. Then events take a melodramatic turn: the woman becomes pregnant while in jail - and a Laotian state newspaper claims she impregnated herself with semen from a fellow prisoner to escape the death penalty, since local law precludes putting expectant mothers in front of a firing squad...