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...practices released in April that recommended a series of policy changes to “achieve the shared goal of a welcoming, safe, and open environment.” Following an incident of alleged racial profiling last August, University President Drew G. Faust charged an independent, six-member committee with scrutinizing the diversity training and recruitment efforts of the Harvard police force. In the weeks before the announcement, black student and faculty leaders had been pushing for the University to address what they viewed as racial profiling by a predominantly white campus police department. They pointed to the August incident?...
...Couture is a pioneer of his sport, an MMA legend who helped take the sport mainstream. Before joining the UFC in the late '90s, he spent six years in the Army, and was an assistant wrestling coach at Oregon State University. Somehow, he seems to be getting better with age. Couture reclaimed a heavyweight championship after coming out of yearlong retirement in 2007, though he lost his last fight, in November, to current UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar. He's broken an arm, his nose, and suffered an orbital fracture in previous fights, but swears he's pain-free...
...practice at this; and for once, they had had time to prepare. Teddy was the only one of the Kennedy boys who got to make a funeral plan, to imagine what would be sung, what would be read. Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the Archbishop of Boston, would preside, with six others priests participating, including Boston College Chancellor The Rev. J. Donald Monan, and the Rev. Mark R. Hession, pastor of Our Lady of Victory parish in Centerville. Cellist Yo Yo Ma would perform the Sarabande from Bach's Cello Suite number 6; Tenor Placido Domingo would since Cesar Franck...
...confluence of factors has led Japan to its likely political upheaval - not least of which is the global economic crisis. Figures released Aug. 28 - two days before the election - show Japan's unemployment rate for July at a record 5.7%, up from the six-year high in June of 5.4% and well on its way to the 6% figure analysts expect by year's end. Japan's July exports dipped to 36.5% over last year, falling for a tenth straight month. Exports to China and the U.S., Japan's top two trade partners, fell 26.5% and 39.5%, respectively, over last...
...Perham says he had no doubts he was ready by the time he was 16. Two years earlier, he had sailed for six weeks across the Atlantic while his father monitored him from a nearby boat. That adventure left him feeling ready to take on the world - but not right away. It took him more than a year to prepare for his record-breaking trip, during which his parents sought out several additional opinions, including those of 12 sailors who'd gone around the world (11 of them were supportive of Perham's attempt) as well as those of sports...