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...Stressing his role as a facilitator, Patrick spoke of the need to make connections with residents who have a stake in ending the violence...
...There is no point in doing research unless you broadcast it,” said Andrew Berry, a concentration adviser in the life sciences. Five of the undergraduates presenting at the symposium also gave short talks about their research. Theodore R. Pak ’09, who spoke about his research on DNA sequence repeats, said that Harvard provides ample funding and opportunities for student research. “Whatever you’re interested in, there is generally someone working on it,” Pak said. “It’s a great time...
...police and the military used tear gas to suppress a protest by thousands of lawyers in Pakistan's largest cities, opposition leader Benazir Bhutto spoke to TIME about the imposition of martial law by President Pervez Musharraf. She said that Musharraf was falling under the sway of the more radical parts of his Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q) party. Still, she said she was not shutting the door on negotiations with Musharraf. Bhutto, who leads the huge People's Party, has not asked her millions of fervent followers to come out into the streets. During the interview, she evinced...
Hours after the bail hearing, Winfrey addressed a press conference on South African television via satellite link from her studio in Chicago in which she spoke about the incidence of sexual abuse in South Africa. A woman is raped every 40 seconds in this country of 44 million - a total of 55,000 rapes a year. Given those figures, said Winfrey, the school had measures in place to keep abusers out, but they had proved insufficient. Sexual abuse often "happens right in the family, [at the hands of] people they know and trust," she said, "and this was also...
Walser, Fowler-Finn’s staunchest ally, is retiring at the end of her term, and some say former School Committee member Marc C. McGovern, who spoke out against renewing Fowler-Finn’s contract in 2006, could win her seat. The other candidates—Nancy Tauber, Gail Lemily Wiggins, and Stephan Malner—are backed by Walser, and are likely to support the superintendent...