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...show solidarity with demonstrators in Iran, students in Harvard's Iranian community say they have been closely following and reposting news of events in Iran on the Internet. One student said he even helped organize protests in Boston...

Author: By Weiqi Zhang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protests Bring Hope, Concern for Harvard's Iranian and Iranian-American Students | 6/21/2009 | See Source »

...priest crisis - the number of men entering the priesthood has dropped by 60% over the past four decades and the current average age of active priests is 60. Many dioceses have been forced to close parishes or import foreign priests to deal with shortages. But advocates of celibacy reform say there is a better solution: ditch the 900-year-old church law prohibiting priests from marrying or being sexually active...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex and the Priestly: Father Cutie Renews Celibacy Debate | 6/21/2009 | See Source »

...teams are having none of it. On June 18, the F1 Teams Association (FOTA) announced that eight of its biggest teams, including Ferrari, McLaren, Renault, Toyota, BMW Sauber and current competition leader Brawn GP, plan to set up a rival championship for the 2010 season. They say the rule changes proposed by Mosley would create an unsatisfying two-tier competition by setting different engineering rules for teams that accept the cap and those that don't, and that the spending cap would hinder innovation. A series of recent changes in the rules governing design have also annoyed the teams, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are the Wheels Coming Off of Formula One? | 6/20/2009 | See Source »

Gender advocates say that the 2006 rape trial of prominent politician Jacob Zuma was incredibly damaging to their cause. Zuma, who was elected President this year, was tried and acquitted of raping an HIV-positive family friend. He told the court that the woman had dressed provocatively, in a traditional wrap-around kanga, and that it was against Zulu culture for a man to leave a sexually aroused woman unsatisfied. (See a profile of South African president Jacob Zuma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa's Rape Crisis: 1 in 4 Men Say They've Done It | 6/20/2009 | See Source »

...better law look like? The Delhi court suggested that because children are usually put to work by their families, a more effective legal tactic to fight this kind of human trafficking would be to prosecute the family members as well as the placement agency. Sinha of the NCPCR says that the court's suggestion - though not legally binding in any way - could be a step in the right direction. "When you are talking about child Labor, no action is trivial," she says. "Every action is important because it is a step forward." Vikram Srivastava from Child Rights and You, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Under Pressure to Do More to Stop Child Labor | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

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