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...five-person committee of high-level Harvard administrators, including President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, began an investigation of students suspected of homosexual acts. The committee, known as “The Court” by its members, went to great lengths to keep these trials a secret, redacting all names and securing all evidence in the University Archives under the title “Secret Court Files, 1920.” This spring, with the development of a play that credits the secret trials as inspiring a “journey behind ivy-covered walls...
...November 21, 2002, Fifteen Minutes magazine published an article by Amit R. Paley ’04, exposing the secret trials Harvard administered to expel students accused of “homsexualism.” Paley first discovered the files regarding the secret court while researching in the University Archives for a different project; with the students’ names redacted, Paley painstaikingly began combing through Freshman Registrar information and old yearbooks in the spring of 2001, trying to piece together an account of the trials...
According to Tony A. Speciale, the production’s director and co-writer, he first conceived of “The Harvard Project” when he read an article about the secret trials in Out magazine; as a graduate student at Columbia University at the time, he knew he wanted to do something special with the story...
...argument is that finance has become a Wild West of outrageous hidden fees, ridiculous fine print, deceptive come-ons and secret side deals designed to sucker us into predatory rip-offs we can't afford or escape. And the CFPA is supposed to be the new sheriff in town. It would be an independent agency empowered to write and enforce rules for financial products, so that banks would no longer enjoy lax consumer regulation - and nonbanks peddling loans from hell would no longer escape just about all regulation. It would be like a financial version of the Consumer Products Safety...
...since Robin Hood has a local hero given the Nottinghamshire authorities quite such a headache as the one induced by TV presenter and resident Ray Gosling. In a BBC program broadcast on Feb. 15, Gosling confessed to a killing. "Maybe this is the time to share a secret that I've kept for quite a long time," said Gosling, filmed strolling among the weathered headstones at a cemetery for a documentary about attitudes toward mortality. "I killed someone once. He was a young chap. He'd been my lover. He got AIDS...