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...Lewis, co-director of AIDS-Free World, an international advocacy organization, last night. In addition, he said, the failure to address sexual violence against women adequately has hastened the spread of HIV. The talk was hosted by the Harvard Global Health and AIDS Coalition and the Anthropology 1825 Speaker Series in connection with World AIDS Day. “I’ve always believed in multilateralism,” said Lewis, who is also a former United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa and deputy director of UNICEF. “But some dreadful things have been done...
...everyone,” he said. “He has an unyielding willingness to say where his data leads without being restrained by the political and social consequences,” Kunkel said. Co-chair of HSMBB Judy E. Fan ’10 said that the speaker series was designed to give students the opportunity to learn in a relaxed environment. Previous speakers have included philosophy professor Sean D. Kelly and speakers from four of the seven Mind, Brain, and Behavior tracks. “In order to create a more social and academic community...
...House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Harry Reid said two weeks ago that if the banking committees in both chambers approve the Big Three's recovery plans, they would consider reconvening the full Congress for a vote. But hashing out terms of what would amount to an unofficial Chapter 11 reorganization is highly unusual and unwieldy for Congress, especially one that's a lame duck. The Executive Branch is better built to handle such talks, and the incoming Obama Administration is looking at all options: using money from the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, which many Democrats have...
...Opinion polls show public opinion in Poland divided on how Jaruzelski should be judged. A December 2007 survey showed that 44% of Poles believe that the communist authorities had no choice but to impose martial law, while 45% condemn the decision. Some former Solidarity leaders, such as current Speaker of the Senate Bogdan Borusewicz, are not as forgiving of Jaruzelski as others have been. "The trial is an act of justice," Borusewicz said. "The martial law was a classic Latin-style military putsch. Jaruzelski defended the communist system, not Poland. He defended the communist dictatorship, not the state...
...Wednesday, and then pushed back to 3 p.m. Just before 4.30 p.m. the shrill bell calling lawmakers into the assembly chamber shrieked across the stained thin carpeting of the halls of the Parliament building. But senior members of the Sunni Tawafuk bloc refused to enter the session, leaving the Speaker with little choice but to reschedule the vote for Thursday. "We want our demands met, and they have not been," said Omar Abdel-Sattar al-Karboole, a member of Tawafuk, as the bell rang. (See photos of five years of U.S. troops in Iraq...