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...Institute will be backed by Radcliffe College's $200 million endowment and $150 million from Harvard, forming a center for study in fields spanning the academic and creative disciplines with an emphasis on gender. The Institute will be headed by a dean and will be considered on par with Harvard's nine faculties, including the Law School and the Medical School...
...whole, however, proctors say SSP students have been well-behaved, and the number of disciplinary cases is par with other years...
...scoutmaster expelled from the organization nine years ago after a newspaper revealed his sexual orientation, the New Jersey bench ruled unanimously that the Boy Scouts? broad-based membership and partnerships with police and fire departments and other public entities rendered it a "place of public accommodation" ? legally on a par with, say, a restaurant ? and therefore bound by the state?s anti-discrimination laws. "The New Jersey ruling is an important victory for the gay rights movement," says TIME correspondent Adam Cohen. "The ?place of public accommodation? concept dates from the Civil Rights era when courts ruled against Southern institutions...
...reach the trail by rail. The Boston subway system, par of Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) and called the T, is the oldest in the nation. And its four lines (red, green, blue and orange) will take you everywhere you need to go for just 85 cents a ride...
...reach the trail by rail. The Boston subway system, par of Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) and called the T, is the oldest in the nation...