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Chaudhry was not able to personally accept the HLS Medal of Freedom: He has been under house arrest since Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency and suspended the country’s constitution earlier this month. Lawyers and opposition leaders have rallied in the streets...
...medal was first awarded in 2000 to attorneys involved in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case. Other recipients include author and social justice activist Randall Robinson and former South African President Nelson Mandela...
...poor at symbolizing ourselves. Many of us would like to snip the Union Jack off our flag, but no one can agree on a new design. Our official Olympic mascots and emblems are kitsch, climaxing last month in the Great Medal Screwup. It turned out that all the Olympic medals, the bronze and the silver as well as the gold, had been designed to feature not the Parthenon in Athens, not even the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, but the Colosseum in Rome, less noted for Olympic-style friendship than for gladiatorial butchery. What the hell, the officials...
...Harvard women’s hockey team’s Sarah Vaillancourt helped Team Canada to a gold medal against Team USA at this weekend’s Four Nations Cup in Leksand, Sweden. The Canadians posted a 2-0 victory over a U.S. Women’s Select Team that included current Harvard tri-captain Caitlin Cahow and former co-captain Julie Chu ‘06-’07. The U.S. outshot Canada, 12-8, in the opening frame but found itself in the hole when former Crimson captain Jennifer Botterill...
...scientist Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 invited a reporter to his house near the Quad to show off his black 10-year-old Lexus ES 300 and its “W ’04” decal. (“I happened to get a medal from Bush,” the well-known conservative says, “and I told him about the sticker...