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Charles R. Nesson ’60, the founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, is defending Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University graduate student charged in 2005 with downloading seven songs from a file-sharing network. According to RIAA spokesperson Cara Duckworth, the amount sought from Tenenbaum is undisclosed and left to the judge’s discretion, though Tenebaum may face over $1 million in penalties...
...would expect that pregnancy bias would be a non-issue by now, 30 years after passage of the PDA," says Christine Nazer, a spokesperson for the EEOC. Yet in 2007, claims hit a record of 5,587, and the commission won nearly $2 million for women who claimed they'd been sold up the creek for being up the duff. Pregnancy claims are still a very small part of the cases the EEOC deals with and haven't grown nearly as fast as charges of false dismissal for retaliation, religion or national origin. Possibly that's because pregnancy discrimination...
...people feel inadequate and worthless. Graffiti doesn't do that. Graffiti doesn't emotionally blackmail you, graffiti doesn't make you feel fat and graffiti doesn't make you rush out and buy things - except maybe high-strength cleaning products," the statement reads. (Read "Statement Issued from Banksy's Spokesperson...
...During the debate over an endowment tax for wealthy universities in Massachusetts, a spokesperson for State Senate President Therese Murray said, “Some of these institutions give very little back to their communities. With such large endowments, they should be doing more.” Do you think this statement accurately describes Harvard...
...Palin's spokesperson, Tracey Schmitt, has dismissed the hoopla surrounding the Republican vice-presidential candidate's shopping sprees (or rather, her stylist's shopping sprees) and added that the clothing would all be donated to charity anyway (at the stroke of midnight). What is a charity going to do with an old Valentino jacket that doesn't have much resale value anyway? And, more importantly, why does a "no-frills" middle class hockey mom from Alaska need to buy designer clothing when there are fantastic facsimiles to be found at one tenth of the price at places like Zara...