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...been "in flux."Brainard also flatly denied recent rumors that administrators are considering changing Lamont Library's hours or limiting its accessibility to certain houses as part of HCL's budget cuts.Brainard has come to represent the sole public voice of HCL, with staffers approached by The Crimson in person or over the phone almost unfailingly adhering to the HCL-wide policy of referring any media communications to her. Employees declined to share their personal feelings on the recent cuts as well, and one staffer in Lamont, when prodded by the Crimson for thoughts on the layoffs, quipped that...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Libraries Cuts Jobs, Hours | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

Technically, OSE is right. Connecticut law defines lobbying as “communicating directly or soliciting others to communicate with any official…for the purpose of influencing any legislative [action].” A person who spends over $2,000 on “lobbying” per year must register with OSE before he squawks. He also must file financial reports regularly and submit to random audits by OSE. That miscreant who fails to register faces fines worth up to $10,000. In this case, that miscreant was the Church...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc | Title: Jesus Christ, Registered Lobbyist | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

...should drop all charges against the Church, and the legislature should revise the rules immediately. We don’t need to register every person marching outside the pearly gates, just the guy trying to slip Saint Peter a few coins. Moreover, it would help both church and state if a court didn’t settle every dispute. Otherwise, we may see the day when the penitent Catholic, at the start of Confession, instead of saying “Bless me Father, for I have sinned,” demands, “Bless me Father...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc | Title: Jesus Christ, Registered Lobbyist | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

...note that 47% of men and 35% of women get involved either emotionally or sexually with someone other than their spouse. Do you think one type of affair - emotional or physical - is more dangerous than the other? No. If the other person would feel betrayed, then it's an affair, whether it's emotional or sexual. It's surprising: some people feel less betrayed by a sexual affair than they do by an emotional one. (Read why some couples don't get married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Good People Cheat | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

Before taking over as Israel's foreign policy point person, Lieberman earned the epithet "racist" among Palestinians and liberal Israelis for advocating that the borderline of a future Palestinian state be redrawn so that large Arab communities inside Israel would lose their citizenship and be carved out. It's a notion that many Israeli-Arabs resist, and they proclaim sarcastically that it's better to remain second-class citizens inside Israel, with its better schools and clinics, than join a Palestinian state that, judging by the current mayhem inside the territory, would be riddled with corruption and appalling services. "Better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Lieberman Raps U.S. on Iran, Settlements | 6/25/2009 | See Source »

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