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...informed them that he would be in the Cambridge area and available to speak this month. “Justice Mendes has a lot of experience with comparative law,” Magnuson said. “We have a lot of the same issues, for example, affirmative action, gay rights, women’s rights.” Justice Mendes’ 30-minute talk placed the Brazilian judicial system within the context of international law and examined the similarities and differences between Brazil and other countries such as the US and Germany. “Knowing about...

Author: By Manning Ding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brazilian Judge Draws Crowd at HLS | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...Haider was killed in a high-speed car accident on Oct. 11. Since then, Europe's newspapers, especially those in Germany, have published stories and photographs of the leader surrounded by young men in what the newspapers call gay bars. "Was Haider Living a Double Life?" the mass-market German daily Bild blared this week. A later story showed photographs of Haider's deputy, Stefan Petzner, in low-cut jeans, a dolphin tattooed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austrian Far-Right Leader Haider Outed in Death? | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...Austrian newspaper so far has openly declared Haider gay. But the revelations of the past two weeks are far more specific than in the past. "The Austrian press has already gone well beyond where they'd been up to now," says Hofer. "It's a crucial period for the media here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austrian Far-Right Leader Haider Outed in Death? | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...quarreled. Petzner has admitted that he rode with Haider for several hundred meters in his car before getting out. Eyewitnesses at a second bar, which Haider apparently visited after leaving Petzner behind, told Austrian reporters that Haider was drinking vodka heavily. The venue was described as a gay bar by several Austrian papers. After leaving, Haider was offered a lift home but insisted on driving himself. The coroner found high levels of alcohol in Haider's blood, Petzner himself later told reporters. "It is true that Joerg Haider was intoxicated at the time of the accident," he said. (Haider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austrian Far-Right Leader Haider Outed in Death? | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...allegations about Haider from the early 1990s, they remained reluctant to publish anything - in part, says Hofer, because however polarizing Haider's politics, his sexual orientation was not considered particularly relevant; he may have been sympathetic with former Nazis and favored anti-immigrant policies, but he never opposed gay rights. Many critics also believed that attacking him on personal grounds would only shore up his support among those who considered the media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austrian Far-Right Leader Haider Outed in Death? | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

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