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...reexamination of the future location of the SCRB department—previously heralded as a centerpiece of science in Allston—came just two months after the University stated that it would be reconsidering the scale and pace of its expansion in response to unprecedented endowment losses...
...each year. Despite an increase in the number of schools opting out of the publication’s annual rankings, the majority of these are less well-known institutions than Harvard, and as a result the authority of US News has not been called into question on a national scale. Harvard should use its name and influence to diminish the importance of these rankings by removing itself from them, an action that would certainly have an effect on the way in which potential applicants view these rankings nationwide. Moreover, Harvard’s position as one of the nation?...
...Since 9/11, most statistics on race and police reports have been made exempt from public disclosure. The last available large-scale study was a 1999 Bureau of Justice Statistics report: “Use of Force By Police: Overview of National and Local Data.” This comparative study of arrests in Miami-Dade County and Eugene, Oregon, found that in all use-of-force incidents in which the officers used a chemical agent, baton, gun, or other special weapons, 57 percent of the suspects were black, 28 percent were Latino, and only 15 percent were white. More recent...
...Last, a Court of Last Resort After more than six years of diplomatic and legal disputes, the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened its first trial in the Hague on Jan. 26. The self-described "court of last resort," which operates independently of the U.N., was created to oversee large-scale human-rights violations--like those allegedly orchestrated by Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, the court's first defendant. The trial of Lubanga for training child-soldiers during the region's 2002-03 ethnic conflict is also the first test of an international law allowing victims--like the 93 people expected...
...Despite the apparent victory for Fairgrade, in the end both sides still have to manage their expectations. Gibson recalls an e-mail he got from one parent. "It said, 'My daughter's a solid C student, and if you don't change the grading scale, she's never going to get into the University of Virginia,' " he says, referring to the state's highly selective flagship public university. "I'm thinking, No, we're going to have to change the grading scale a lot." After all, the goal is achieving fairness, not fantasy...