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Cabot House senior Ariel E.F. Shaker ’10 is in intensive care after suffering a “critical injury” yesterday, according to an e-mail sent to Cabot House residents by Cabot House Master Jay M. Harris late last night...
Opposition to the bid for the games was virtually nonexistent. The Rev. C. Jay Matthews, leader of Mount Sinai Baptist Church and a prominent voice in Cleveland's African-American community, led an unsuccessful campaign last winter challenging the city's domestic-partnership registry. But he took no public stand regarding the games. "Ohio has a reputation that is more conservative than the reality," says Sue Doerfer, executive director of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Greater Cleveland. "This effort will change Ohio forever," says Joe Cimperman, a Cleveland city council member, who expects the council to vote...
...restrictions spread around the Web? Blame Wikipedia's fractured organization. Policy decisions are made by a community of volunteers, and the foundation that runs the site isn't always aware of the specific rules that the group might adopt. When told about Wales' narrower view of the new policy, Jay Walsh, a spokesman for the nonprofit, was surprised. "This is the first I've heard of it," he said in an e-mail. Indeed, even the foundation's blog reported that the restrictions would apply broadly to all entries on living people. It has, like lots of things on Wikipedia...
When West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller gave his closing argument on Sept. 29 to the Senate Finance Committee in support of his amendment to create a new government-run health-insurance plan, he sounded amply frustrated. Describing the people of his state, he said they were "out in the cold" and "helpless" against faceless insurance bureaucrats who treat them unfairly. A public health-insurance plan, he said, would create competition for private insurers and could put patients, not profits, first. "These are people," he said, banging the table more than once. "Eleven-year-old kids. These are families...
...first U.S. extradition agreement appeared as a clause within the 1794 Jay Treaty with Britain, and applied only to murder and forgery. Formal extradition didn't become commonplace in Western countries until the mid-19th century when increased travel made it easier for criminals to escape. Today, the U.S. has extradition treaties with 108 countries. Colombia extradites an average of four suspects to the U.S. each week - the most of any country - usually on charges related to drug trafficking...