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...Transportation Minister, then as President, Katsav had sexually harassed and raped female underlings. Katsav denies the charges. On June 28, Mazuz dropped his bombshell. Instead of indicting the President on rape charges, the Attorney General cut a deal with him. Katsav is expected to resign and be indicted on lesser charges of sexual harassment and indecent behavior. And, to the outrage of many Israeli commentators and feminists, Mazuz recommended that Katsav serve no jail time. The Attorney General, according to aides, believed that the public disgrace of having to resign was punishment enough. Many Israelis disagreed...
Robert Kennedy's crusade against the lesser-known Marcello, whose Mob territory embraced Texas, was almost as intense. Born in Tunisia of Sicilian parents who moved to the U.S. in 1910, Marcello later used a phony Guatemalan birth registration to avoid deportation to Italy. Fully aware that Marcello was not a Guatemalan, Kennedy in 1961 nevertheless had Immigration agents hustle him aboard a 78-seat jet as its lone passenger and deposit him in Guatemala City. Marcello and his American lawyer were later flown to El Salvador, where soldiers dumped the two expensively dressed men in the mountains. Marcello claimed...
Former Harvard College Democrats President Eric P. Lesser ’07 wrote in an e-mailed statement that he was “thrilled” that Clinton was chosen as Class Day speaker. “He is one of the most talented leaders of our time and I think the entire class will learn a lot from what he has to say,” Lesser wrote...
...issues.Nevertheless, there remains a glimmer of hope. The SCGE might demonstrate the sense its predecessor lacked and take a lax approach to departmental exemptions. Thankfully, the General Education legislation requires that the SCGE be headed by a faculty member, as opposed to an administrator, who will hopefully have a lesser sense of self-importance and a clearer sense of educational priorities.We also hope that, despite the vague legislation, Faculty members themselves embrace its passing as an opportunity to create new and exciting courses, and to become more closely involved in undergraduate instruction. Students themselves bear the responsibility to approach their...
...When Pat was appointed, [women] began to emerge with the ability to represent the professional background and the administrative background in a very effective combination and it just took a while for that to emerge,” says Lesser, who years earlier had been involved in the appointment of the first female professor at the University, when Beatrice B. Whiting was tenured at the School of Education...