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...Mart concluded that wasn't a battle worth waging anywhere else. "Rather than try to fight these [bouts] state by state, it just seemed like the right time to begin to sell emergency contraceptives," says Mona Williams, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman. The decision is the latest in a string of developments expanding access to emergency contraception, one of the few arenas in which abortion-rights groups seem to be gaining ground...
...years as president of Real Madrid, the world's wealthiest soccer club; in Madrid. Although the Spanish team spent more than $300 million signing superstar players like David Beckham, Zin?dine Zidane and Ronaldo, it has failed to win any major championships in nearly three years and has suffered a string of defeats in recent months. "I cannot ever regret having enjoyed the soccer of the world's best players," P?rez said upon announcing his resignation...
...Summers’ tendency to carry top-down management into what professors see as their domain. The first Harvard president to review the tenure process instead of rubber stamping recommendations, Summers has also been accused of forcing his vision onto the curricular review and using a seemingly endless string of resignations and appointments to gain greater control over academic decision-making. To some, the distinction is simple: centralization is fine for administrative odds and ends, so long as the president’s office stays out of the educating business. Bureaucrats are really unprepared to make these sorts of decisions...
...campus population or that meet specific needs of specific groups. Student counselling services, a central resource for the College’s gay and lesbian students, a women’s center, and prayer space all fit this criterion. So does storage for the HRO’s unwieldy string instruments, and enlarged office space for the Harvard Foundation, which administers some 55 ethnic and cultural organizations on this campus. There isn’t really any reason why other groups, for whom a central location is not imperative to their successful operation, shouldn’t be expected...
...Intercultural and Race Relations, prayer space for the Harvard Islamic Society and Dharma, and a new Harvard College women’s center. The BGLTSA resource center (not the organization itself) and college-wide counselling groups will keep their central locations, as will the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO), whose string basses just don’t fit on Quad shuttles...