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...Harvard Law School’s capital campaign also boosted the total by $54 million. That campaign, which ended in June and is the largest in the history of legal education, “is expected to have exceeded its $400 million goal,” according to Harvard’s fundraising announcement last week...
...Plans by Italy's center-right government to fingerprint Roma residents in a mandatory census have also drawn fire, despite the fact that the E.U. ruled earlier this month that the scheme was legal because it was not aimed at tracking people by ethnic background, but rather fingerprinting those who had no other way of being identified...
...Today, immigrants from Africa and Asia, some who have no legal right to be in an E.U. member state, are typically aching to cooperate with authorities in order to gain legal residency or citizenship. After centuries living on the margins of established European society, often choosing separate schooling and housing, it can still be difficult to pin down what Roma want from the state. Seeing the issue through the eyes of Claudio the social worker was a reminder of how much this unique ethnic group confounds fixed ideas. Bologna is one of Italy's most productive and politically progressive cities...
...Even though he was released without charge, the Wakanoho's arrest shook the sport to its core. The rikishi escaped charges only because the amount of marijuana in his wallet was smaller than the threshold for legal punishment in Japan. At a news conference, Wakanoho cried, repeatedly apologized and asked for a reinstatement. But a sport whose rituals and conventions are so intimately tied with a traditional sense of Japanese identity is not so easily able to forgive the Russian's transgressions. He was told by the Japan Sumo Association (JSA) that reinstating him was impossible. On September 11, Wakanoho...
...English-only rule has had an unintended consequence. Though it was designed to raise money for the sport, media backlash has actually ended up alienating sponsors. This, combined with threatened legal action, was enough to pressure Bivens into rescinding the rule last week. She was quoted as saying that, “after hearing the concerns, we believe there are other ways to achieve our shared objective of supporting and enhancing the business opportunities for every tour player...