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...Committee. The local company Citybus refused to rent a double-decker to organizers of the city's parade because of concerns about its image. "This was a blatant act of discrimination, especially seeing the fact that this is a legal parade and the Hong Kong police have granted a permit," says Betty Grisoni, co-founder of a lesbian-rights organization called Les Peches, which helped organize the parade. A Citybus spokeswoman said on Dec. 11 that it would not discriminate against any party and that it was a commercial decision...
...Gist: Rinella one-ups his previous book, The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine (we're talking pigeons, sparrows, raccoons, etc.), by going after the massive and mythical buffalo. "In the spring of 2005," he writes, "the state of Alaska announced that it was issuing twenty-four hunting permits for the Copper River buffalo herd." He and 1,302 other hunters sent in their applications. Rinella won a permit, and off he went, on both a literal and an intellectual expedition, hoping to get one of the creatures in his rifle sights while also exploring the history, misconceptions and science...
...Amend RMC 804 to add RMC 804(c)(1)(2): "(1) The accused does not have a right to be absent from any military commission proceedings; however, the military judge may permit the voluntary absence of the accused following an inquiry, on the record, sufficient to establish: (a) that the accused's request for absence is personal, knowing, and voluntary, and (b) that the prosecution will not be disadvantaged by the accused's absence...
...pleased to hear that the American Presidency exam has been moved, but this change is not nearly sufficient,” said Jason Y. Shah ’11, one of the leaders of the protest effort regarding the schedule. “The goal is to permit civic participation for the entire Harvard undergraduate population, which extends far beyond the students in that class.” Shah is a student in Government 1368: “The Politics of American Education,” one of the almost 40 classes affected, and he said he has not heard...
...make domestic sustainability a focus of his environmental policy, but even the outgoing administration should be given credit for offering its support to Cape Wind. Sadly, much still needs to be done from a bureaucratic perspective: The Coastal Zone Management has yet to approve the project, and the composite permit that Cape Wind is developing to expedite the process needs to be honored...