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...market wants a faster, earlier-maturing horse," says Dan Rosenberg, president of Three Chimneys horse-breeding farm in Midway, Ky., "but there is an incompatibility between speed and durability." Not everyone in the industry agrees, but injuries like Barbaro's raise the question anew every time they occur...
...haven't fought in any of the wars that I've been a passive witness to, and I haven't had much violence in my life--so there is a kind of a rush about actually trying to imagine violence and flesh it out, dramatize it. Because it does occur. You just avoid it as much...
Nobel Peace Prize winner and women’s rights activist Shirin Ebadi spoke at a Harvard Book Store sponsored event yesterday, arguing Americans and Iranians “have no differences” despite sour relations between their governments, and that political change in Iran must first occur internally. “It is upon us Iranians to resolve these issues. It is not the job of foreign soldiers,” Ebadi said, speaking through an interpreter before a crowd of nearly 200 at the First Parish Church. Ebadi, an Iranian who is also a lawyer...
...also stated the importance of having an open dialogue between the City Council and the School Committee. “There is a pent up desire [on the Council] to be a part of the solution,” he said. The roundtable is scheduled to occur May 30. —Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu...
...Unlike the TSA's troubled and controversial use of computer databases to scan for individuals whose names occur on passenger "watch lists," SPOT is based on observing passenger behavior. George Naccara, the TSA's Federal Security Director who has been overseeing the SPOT program in Boston, is a big booster. "This system is conducted by trained personnel and closely monitored by supervisors," he says. "It provides another significant layer of security...