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...response, Kane stressed that the traditional in absentia method will remain a possibility.“Clearly it’s a very positive development,” Kane said yesterday of the new policy. “I don’t see how anyone can interpret this any other way.”Kane made his presentation to the Council—the Faculty’s governing body—together with the OIP’s director, Jane Edwards, who could not be reached for comment yesterday evening.MATERNITY LEAVE CHANGESAt the same meeting, Dillon Professor...
...Basic Law, Hong Kong's constitution since its handover to China in 1997, stipulates that the earliest possible date for a directly elected Chief Executive is 2007, and that a fully elected legislature must wait till at least 2008. In 2004, however, China's leaders exercised their power to interpret the Basic Law to decree that those dates were no longer acceptable. Now, Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang, the man in the middle, is trying to bring the two sides together with a limited reform package scheduled for a vote in the Legislative Council...
...Breyer, a 1964 graduate of Harvard Law School, asked during oral arguments Tuesday, “Why not interpret the statute in the way that the amicus brief suggests in order to avoid the difficult constitutional question...
...without having to do the deathly requirements of the English department.” Now pursuing a master’s degree in Australian Studies, Evans appreciates the tools he acquired from his time at Harvard: “Film Studies, like Literature, has taught me to read and interpret culture.” “Parents tend to wonder about where this major will lead,” mentions UPenn’s Corrigan, an understandable concern given its comparatively short time on campuses. He argues that film “will provide the same intellectual and research...
...students because all recruiters were faced with the same nondiscrimination pledge.But FAIR’s lead attorney, E. Joshua Rosenkranz, appeared to reject that argument under questioning from Justice Stephen G. Breyer yesterday.Breyer asked, “Do you agree with the government that the statute as fairly interpreted is violated when schools issue rules uniformly applied to all employers that you can’t come in if you have the discrimination against hiring gay people?”“Yes, your honor,” Rosenkranz replied, directly contradicting the Harvard professors’ brief.Before that...