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...been in place since 1989, real protection for the threatened species ended in 1997. That's when pro-ivory trade forces pushed through a decision in CITES that allowed a one-time exception to the ban on sales of stockpiled ivory. The idea was that by allowing a few legal sales, pressure for ivory goods would diminish, mostly in richer Asian nations, and therefore reduce the demand for poaching. If poaching was an illegal drug, stockpile sales were the methadone. (See pictures of India's contraband wildlife...
...Theodore '05, then The Crimson's managing editor, and Timothy J. McGinn '06, a Crimson reporter investigating the Facebook/ConnectU authorship controversy. Both declined to comment on the hacking incident for this post. ConnectU founders Divya K. Narendra '04 and Cameron S.H. Winklevoss '04 also declined to comment, citing legal reasons, while the other ConnectU founder, Tyler O.H. Winklevoss '04, was not able to be reached as of this posting...
Marshall—the justice who wrote the decision that made same-sex marriage legal in Massachusetts in 2003—said that growing up under apartheid sparked her interest...
...events. Sophomores get to go on a boat cruise down the Charles with Dorothy and Diana. The House also plays host to speakers organized just for Lowellians. For example, this past week, we had former U.S. Soliciter General Seth P. Waxman '73 and a bank-robber-turned-jail-house-legal-expert in the Junior Common Room fielding questions from students for over an hour...
...concern they have is with the lack of qualified local providers,” says Noah E. Lewis, staff attorney for the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund and a 2005 graduate of Harvard Law School. “Which, of course, is the result of insurance exclusions in the first place...