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DIED. JOERGEN NASH, 84, provocative Danish artist and author of 42 books who took responsibility for beheading Copenhagen's famed Little Mermaid statue with a hacksaw in 1963; in Copenhagen. In the 1960s he engaged in such antics as blowing whistles to interrupt Parliament, unleashing mice at the Danish Literature Academy and tossing firecrackers onstage at the Copenhagen Royal Theater...
...that has spread through the developed world in recent months. Last week in Massachusetts, where gay marriage has been legal since May 17, the Cape Cod resort of Provincetown yielded to a request from the Governor to stop marrying out-of-staters. In Australia, Prime Minister John Howard asked Parliament to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The discussion in France reaches a milestone this Saturday when Green Party leader Noël Mamère, in his capacity as mayor of the Bordeaux suburb of Bègles, will kick off the June season...
...undeterred. "This is a political initiative to reverse prejudice," he says. "It's in line with the Greens' orientation towards openness and equality." What better time to demonstrate that commitment, he says, than just before the June 10-13 elections for the European Parliament? Same-sex legal partnerships - though not full-fledged marriages - were first approved in Europe in the Nordic countries. Fifteen years ago Denmark recognized "registered partnerships," which gave gay and lesbian couples rights equivalent to married couples in all matters but the right to adopt, or to receive artificial insemination. The famously tolerant Dutch surpassed the Scandinavians...
...years ago, I traveled to Rwanda with five other undergraduates to observe an experiment in transitional justice in the aftermath of the country’s 1994 genocide. Some of us spent weeks monitoring proceedings in rural courts; others interviewed more than 40 survivors, prisoners and members of parliament about grassroots justice. It was an extraordinary opportunity for us to pursue serious field research in one of the world’s poorest nations, and to have our findings published in a leading journal. The CID was instrumental in demonstrating Harvard’s commitment to development studies through...
...back of a truck proved Morgan's undoing. Last week the Mirror's publisher conceded the pictures were fake (the paper claims to have been the victim of a hoax), apologized unreservedly to readers and the military, and fired the editor. Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram told Parliament the pictures were "categorically not taken in Iraq"; the military, having managed to identify the truck, said the vehicle was never there. While the military furiously charged that the Mirror had both endangered soldiers' lives in Iraq and, by inciting Arab hatred against Britain, helped recruit for al-Qaeda, Morgan argued...