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Nobel Laureate and former Lamont University Professor of Philosophy and Economics Amartya K. Sen gave a keynote address to an audience of HLS graduates, program donors and prominent human rights activists at a Saturday night dinner in Pound Hall...
According to Susan Culhane, a human rights program administrator, every available seat was taken for Sen's speech. There was a waiting list of 30 students for the limited number of spaces on the Pound Hall balcony...
...usual suspects? For a terrorist bombing in Moscow, there may be too many to round up. Russian authorities confirmed Thursday that an overnight explosion that killed 23 people and injured more than 150 was caused by a 450-pound bomb, opening another round of speculation as to the identity of the perpetrators. Although a caller to the Interfax news agency claimed the attack was a "response to the bombing of villages in Chechnya and Dagestan," that?s unlikely to close the betting on the identity of the perpetrators...
...willingness to pound his chest, Randy is utterly unable to articulate his political purpose. Josh Anderson at least has a cause. He says he drifted to Straight Edge, and the hard-core, punk rock-like music that is part of the scene, after his mother was ostracized by the Mormon church for coming out as a lesbian. He listened to a band named Earth Crisis, read books on animal liberation and became a vegan. One night in 1996, he and some Straight Edge mates drove by a McDonald's still under construction. "We joked and said it would be neat...
...jacked up bean prices as much as $2 per lb. this month, following Starbucks, which raised its drink prices an average of 10[cents] in May. These chains cite tight supplies of labor and fancy coffees. Best advice is to scour the Web. Instead of paying $10 for a pound of Sumatra, buy two bags at CoffeeAM.com for $7.86 each and pay no shipping fees...