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...federal court of appeals recently overturned a motion by Harvard Law School professor Charles R. Nesson ’60 to allow what his staff says would have been the first Internet broadcast of a federal judicial proceeding to the general public in history. The development came in the midst of a case that Nesson is defending on behalf of Joel Tenenbaum, a graduate student at Boston University who faces up to $1 million in damages after being sued by several prominent record labels in 2005 for allegedly downloading seven songs from a file-sharing Web site in high school...
...night’s acts, often breaking into nervous laughter when one the audience was pulled into the fray. Queens “Miss Patience” (James P. Alexander ’10) and “Mariza” solicited the rowdiest laughter with their performance of R&B hit “The Boy is Mine,” pantomimed with the help of a drag-king aide. Similarly, “Fishy Snatch” channelled Mariah Carey for her moving rendition of “Always Be My Baby,” overcoming the shortcomings...
...always going to be some resistance to change when an organization comes in to fix a failing system,” she said. “I love Boston Public Schools but I also absolutely believe that there is a place for TFA here.” Eve R. Meyer ’09 emphasized that the intention of TFA is to supplement, not replace, current teachers. “We certainly would never want to displace a 30-year veteran teacher, but clearly Boston is an area they thought could use more teachers,” she said...
...Harvard asks its faculty to pitch in, it should call for similar sacrifice from students and parents who can afford to pay a bit more. While pulling back on financial aid—just as Smith’s predecessor, the late Jeremy R. Knowles, did during an earlier fiscal crisis—would generate bad press, doing so is necessary and, ultimately, fair. Such a reduction should be confined to the newest aid initiative—the one that benefits those families earning up to $180,000—and not the previous programs for those earning less than...
...Adam R. Gold ’11, a Crimson editorial writer, is a physics concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...