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...decision. Hargrave-Thomas has a broad range of supporters--from Democratic Senator Carl Levin to Judge Gadola, a Ronald Reagan appointee who has publicly said she "very likely is innocent." But the victim's family opposes setting her free, and if Granholm did so, she would risk being labeled soft on crime. G.O.P. state chairman Saul Anuzis last week issued a statement warning the Governor not "to release a convicted murderer due to political pressure." --By James Carney
...cases of Tribe and Ogletree, some dismiss the charges of plagiarism as politically motivated and petty. But other observers say that Harvard is going soft on its academic all-stars, a move they find less than surprising. For these critics, academia’s attitude toward plagiarism can be all bark, no bite...
...William C. Kirby’s annual letter in February, he wrote that as FAS concentrates on investing in financial aid, curricular changes, salaries, and expanding its ranks, it will also try to rein in spending with careful monitoring of general expenses, maintaining its years-long “soft freeze” on staff hiring and conserving energy...
Speaking in his thoughtful, soft-spoken tone, he discusses an incident of cross–burning outside his dorm in February of his freshman year—which had been conducted by his fellow freshmen as a “prank.” The five-foot-high burning cross was placed outside Stoughton Hall, where nine black students lived...
...slowly being rebuilt, with the aim of training the country's best and brightest to reconstruct a society shattered by tyranny, sanctions and war. But violence has jeopardized those hopes. Academics have become a favored target for terrorist groups aiming to destabilize Iraq and for kidnapping gangs looking for soft targets. A recent nationwide U.N. study says 48 academics have been assassinated. Taher al-Bakaa, who was Iraq's Minister for Higher Education under former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, puts the number at 66. Just last week a deputy dean at Baghdad's Mustansiriya University was killed along with three...