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...recently, the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which forbids openly gay people from serving in the military, has conflicted with the university’s commitment to anti-discrimination. Harvard Law School professors have fiercely contested the 1996 Solomon Amendment, which blocks federal funding of research programs in universities that do not allow military recruiters on campus. In 2006, the Supreme Court ruled that military recruiters have the right to recruit on college campuses. This time, Harvard finds itself already compliant with the recruiting regulations aimed at enforcing...
...were murdered in London last year by youths wielding guns or knives. All but a handful of the dead teenagers were black or Asian. More than half of all black Britons live in London, many in hardscrabble housing projects such as the Moorlands Estate in Brixton, south London, where Solomon Wilson, 23, and his friend Nathan Foster grew up. Wilson says he was "no saint" when younger, but he benefited from a happy home life. "I take my hat off to my mum," he says. As he saunters along Brixton's Coldharbour Lane, he's trailed by a posse...
Nebuchadnezzar's magnificent city required abundant cheap labor, much of it provided by Jewish captives. In 601 B.C., Jehoiakim, King of Judah, forged an alliance with Egypt, which was embroiled in ongoing skirmishes with Babylon; as retribution, Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem, raiding Solomon's Temple and seizing 10,000 Jews to help build his city. This brutal history would later color the portrayal of Babylon in the Bible. "In Christian culture, Babylon was quite deliberately developed as a broad symbol of the city of sin," says Michael Seymour, a curator of the British Museum's Middle Eastern collection. Indeed...
...evolve from writing about vampires to writing about the life of Jesus? -Tonya Solomon Flushing, Mich.It was a personal conversion. After 38 years of being an atheist, faith came back to me. I had to stop writing about vampires, because they had been a metaphor for lost souls. Instead, I made up my mind to concentrate on Jesus Christ...
Armed with the Emergency Toolkit, workers go into crises with a clear sense of their role within the team and an understanding of how a given problem should be solved step-by-step. "If an I.T. shop goes down, they know how to recover it," says Patrick Solomon, CARE's senior vice president of global support services. "This manual helps prepare people so they can handle anything they might face...