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Although no official charges have been issued against Sinduhije, officials suggest that the statements that he made in the documents could result in charges of “insulting the President,” Burundi police spokesman Pierre Chanel Ntarabaganyi told the Human Rights Watch. Ntarabaganyi said that the movement’s illegal status alone was enough to result in Sinduhije’s arrest...
...Human rights activists said they believe Sinduhije’s candidacy is at least responsible for his arrest...
...Faculty Council’s unanimous approval of a concentration in human developmental and regenerative biology (HDRB) is an exciting development, especially at a time when stem cell research promises to revolutionize medicine and dramatically improve the quality of human life. The prospect of this new concentration, however, also raises important questions about the College’s guiding pedagogical principles that the Faculty would be remiss to ignore. As the Faculty decides whether to approve HDRB as a field of concentration—as, to be sure, we hope it will do—it should remain mindful...
Given the centrality and breadth that characterize HDRB, we do not doubt that it should qualify for concentration status. As human knowledge continues to expand and splinter, however, it will become increasingly important for the Faculty to hold fast to its liberal arts principles. Undergraduates at Harvard should specialize in a distinct and central field of study in the tradition of the liberal arts; they are not graduate students, postdocs, or researchers, and their experience should not be treated as such. Even as the face of science transforms, the core pedagogical values that have guided the College for well over...
...were angered by what they see as a callous response from Heineman's administration - that state welfare agents appear to be accusing parents of too easily abdicating their responsibilities. "It's been very disturbing, how judgmental you've been," Senator Amanda McGill said to the state's health and human services chief, Todd Landry. "You've had plenty of time to make these judgmental statements to the press" but not to return phone calls from desperate parents, she said. Landry argued that the state offers many lifelines and that services are available. "So all a parent...