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A recent student-made petition has brought to light the fact that Harvard art museums, while displaying an impressive collection of traditional Western art, have no permanent exhibitions of African art. The dearth in exhibits cannot be attributed to a dearth in African art itself—the Fogg and...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Out of Africa | 2/1/2008 | See Source »

Money is not enough in order to get on the ballot. For example in Texas we have perhaps the most difficult ballot access in the country because it's a combination as in all states of signature requirements - which in Texas is extraordinarily high, about 75,000 signatures - [and] timing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bloomberg's Independence Primer | 1/27/2008 | See Source »

The Tampa court decided that Odyssey has 14 days to turn over all data regarding the Black Swan's identity and location and must permit Spain to inspect the artifacts it has recovered. That ruling levels the playing field before a civil trial in Tampa again next October, which will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shipwreck Mystery Must be Aired | 1/11/2008 | See Source »

So great was the taboo surrounding FGM until recently that even the Iraqi Kurdish authorities, largely supportive of campaigns against it, have sometimes been tentative in their resolve to take action. Since 14,000 people signed an April 2007 petition for a law against FGM, though, the mood has changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An End to Female Genital Cutting? | 1/4/2008 | See Source »

Harvard’s Asian American Association (AAA) has had a long and unsuccessful track record with advocating for the creation of an Asian American Studies concentration. The quest has, according to a Crimson news article in December, spanned twenty years and many hundreds of petition signatures. But before we...

Author: By N. KATHY Lin | Title: No to Asian American Studies | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

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