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...face of his financial and legal battles, Jackson has reportedly made moves to find peace by converting to Islam, according to British tabloid the Sun. It reports that ahead of the court case last week, Jackson went through the shahada, the Muslim declaration of belief, in the Hollywood Hills home of Steve Porcaro, the man who composed music on Jackson's Thriller album. Jackson has reportedly taken the name of Mikaeel, one of Allah's angels...
...City Hall yesterday afternoon in protest to Proposition 8, a ban on same-sex marriage approved by California voters passed earlier this month. The rally in Central Square, which featured speakers including state representatives and past and present mayors of Cambridge, emphasized the city’s example in legalizing gay marriage and advocated spreading the “sweet wine of freedom” across the country. Cambridge was the first city to legalize gay marriage and has had two consecutive gay mayors. “The sky did not fall,” said Mayor E. Denise Simmons...
Hauwa Ibrahim, a Nigerian human-rights attorney, described her efforts to defend Nigerian women under Sharia Law, Islam’s legal system, to a rapt audience at the Radcliffe Gymnasium last night...
Recognizing that women were being denied the right to a fair trial, she said she looked to international human rights standards as a model for her legal strategy and then scoured Nigerian and Islamic law for similar statues in order to secure due process and avoid execution by stoning for women accused of adultery...
...also voted 24-2 to allocate $800 to hire a lawyer to examine the legal implications of using Slingboxes at Harvard. Slingboxes would allow students to access cable television on the Internet...