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...Commencement, we don robes that mark our ties to the most ancient traditions of scholarship. On this occasion, however, our procession includes not just our Harvard community, but scholars—220 of them—representing universities and colleges from across the country and around the globe. I welcome and thank our visitors, for their presence reminds us that what we do here today, and what we do at Harvard every day, links us to universities and societies around the world...
...this will be. Many of these Justices seem to seek the spotlight--the hotter, the better. Thomas' headline-making memoir, thick with grievances, drowns out the substantive work of the court. Other Justices prefer to give speeches, barely disguised as questions, from the bench or to jet around the globe to conferences and panel discussions...
What is going on? Even in an era of connectedness, when such outrages are beamed into living rooms around the globe, the world's major powers can't seem to agree on what should be done or who should do it. While many foreign critics of the U.S. express relief at the erosion of American influence, events in Burma and Darfur show the downside of the U.S.'s diminished standing: a void in global human-rights leadership...
Number of years it took British adventurer Jason Lewis, 40, to circumnavigate the globe using only human-powered transportation...
...women can receive compensation for eggs donated to treat infertility, but not for use in medical research. “Despite an advertising campaign to find donors, we have yet to have a woman donate an egg to our cause,” Eggan said, according to The Boston Globe. Colen said the University has spent $100,000 on such advertisements. “The issue is not so much that donors can’t be paid, as that they can’t be compensated for lost time or work in the service of medical advance, and that?...