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...based on claims by several former employees that students were "subjected to frequent obscenity-laced screaming sessions by staff members; students were deprived of sleep; a group of girls emerged from one group-therapy session with bruising on their arms after they were ordered to clasp their hands in front of them and pound a mattress for an extended period," according to the Bend Bulletin. The Oregon DHS cleared the program following the investigation...
Speaking in front of a packed Sackler Museum Auditorium on Thursday, Scottish novelist and law professor Alexander McCall-Smith admitted to writing about real-life acquaintances in his fiction. “I take great pleasure in putting real people into books. I take their permission, well, not entirely,” he said, before warning event host Professor Arthur I. Applbaum that he might come up in a future novel. McCall-Smith, a former professor of medical ethics at the University of Edinburgh, was born in Zimbabwe and lived for many years in Botswana. His fictional oeuvre includes...
...Dalai Lama, will spend his time in the area giving talks and participating in conferences. He has travelled to Harvard twice in the past 15 years. The Dalai Lama will give a talk called “Educating the Heart” at Memorial Church on April 30 in front of over 900 faculty and students. The event’s lottery closed on Wednesday. After the talk, the Dalai Lama plans to plant a tree with University President Drew Faust, and later receive a citation from Harvard, said Sangay. The following day, he will participate in a panel discussion...
...names of Waldemar Lorenzana and other members of his family under government suspicion, however, do not appear on many of the titles to their assets, officials say. Rather, those documents use front men (or women) to register businesses, which officials note is a common tactic for laundering money. "The families that run [drug trafficking] know they can't leave a trace," says the narcotics prosecutor, Ruiz...
Nowhere is this bilateral relationship more apparent than in Tijuana, the busiest border crossing on the planet. A giant launching pad for migrants, center for U.S.-owned assembly plants and strategic front in the drug trade, the city of 1.6 million has long enjoyed the best and worst of living next door to the U.S. colossus. However, that relationship has soured in recent months with news of a bloody cartel turf war that has scared many Americans away from even stepping foot in Tijuana. (See pictures of Mexico's war on drugs...