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Students from Lambda, Harvard Law School’s gay rights organization, convened Saturday at the first annual Gay and Lesbian Legal Advocacy conference to map out the course of gay rights activism following the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding the Solomon Amendment...
...long conference, Lambda honored Boston College law professor Kent Greenfield for his work in challenging the Solomon Amendment. The day featured panels planning ways to attack the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which prohibits openly gay and lesbian individuals from serving, and discussing “ex-gay treatment,” a movement by some faith-based groups to alter the sexual orientation of homosexuals...
...enjoyed some blue skies and a light breeze, making the urgent warnings on television and radio sound faintly ridiculous. But 650 km to the northeast, Larry was sucking power from the moisture-laden tropical air, its growth favored by circulation patterns over the warm coral seas south of Solomon Islands. Overnight, the 200-km-wide Category Four storm zeroed in on the cane and banana farming district...
RAMSI's special coordinator, Australian diplomat James Batley, acknowledges that stopping child exploitation is an urgent problem, and says his team is "reinforcing the system" for doing so. But he points out that the mission's mandate is to help the Solomons government perform its role more effectively. To that end, it has focused on the most pressing problems: a lack of security and essential services. Much of the effort by RAMSI's Participating Police Force and the Royal Solomon Islands Police "has to be put into the task of getting the pieces of this fragmented institution (the RSIP) operating...
...daughter to come with her - and then cries with relief. Later, the daughter says she has been on a tuna boat; she spent the previous night in a hotel room with Atto, a 20-year-old Asian sailor from the Sea Chase, who paid her for the night. Under Solomon Islands law, defiling a girl under 13 carries a life sentence, but Atto is unlikely to face prosecution. Junelyn and her daughter just want to return to their home island, and have no plans to go to the police...