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...pound of marijuana and approximately $1,000 on or near Cosby after he had been shot. Cosby has been linked to drug sales to Harvard students, The Crimson reported last Wednesday, citing multiple text messages sent to Harvard students from a phone registered to Cosby’s mother mentioning marijuana and suggesting that Cosby was engaged in its sale. Karp said that Campbell and Lowell resident Brittany J. Smith ’09 have both been linked to the incident. He said Campbell denied knowing the victim or giving her swipe card—which grants access to Harvard...
...America's legal system. Sotomayor, 54, was raised by Puerto Rican parents in a South Bronx housing project a few miles from the old Yankee Stadium. Her father, a tool-and-die maker who died when Sotomayor was 9, had a third-grade education and spoke only Spanish; her mother worked as a nurse at a methadone clinic and bought the neighborhood's only set of encyclopedias. A fiercely devoted student, Sotomayor attended Catholic schools and then Princeton University on a scholarship, graduating summa cum laude. She later attended Yale Law School and worked for the Manhattan district attorney...
...when, according to a report compiled by the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, the vehicle was fired on by an Italian patrol convoy. Benafsha was seated in the middle of the backseat wearing a red dress, her relatives say. She was shot in the face and died instantly. Her mother was wounded in the chest. (See pictures of U.S. troops operating in Afghanistan's deadly Korengal Valley...
...Berlin's leafy Kollwitz Square, home to a small but crowded playground, many parents say they support the teachers' goals and are unfazed by the disruption. "The nursery teachers work long hours and they're often too tired and stressed to look after the kids properly," says Xenea, mother of 3-year-old Anna, who is darting around and playing in the sand. "At my daughter's kindergarten, there's one teacher to 10 kids. And when one teacher falls sick or can't make it, parents have to jump in," she says. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...German children under age 3 attend state-run nursery schools, compared with a European average of 35%. To try to catch up, the German government has pledged to triple the number of day-care spaces to 750,000 by 2013, and Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen, herself a mother of seven, wants to give one in three children under the age of 3 the chance to attend nursery school...