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...mail spurred BGLT tutors in Adams and Lowell Houses to encourage a demonstration of gay pride in their dining halls. “It’s part of Adams House tradition to be a place of diversity and tolerance but also a locale of activism and support for the entire Harvard community,” Adams House BGLT tutor Christopher J. Hanson wrote in an e-mailed statement. Hanson also contacted Adams junior and BGLTSA Secretary Christian L. Garland ’10, who forwarded Nicolson’s message to the BGLTSA e-mail list. Garland wrote...
...announced last Friday. Patrick said the cut will be expanded to $375 million next year, pulling another $6.6 million from Cambridge, as part of an effort to close a $1.1 billion shortfall in the state’s budget. The state provides local aid to cities and towns to support essential services like police, fire, and trash collection. The budget reduction is expected to force local officials state-wide to reduce or cut these services and lay off employees. “This is by far the worst financial situation we have had in the Commonwealth in the time that...
Harvard Law School announced Wednesday that it has received an anonymous donation of $10 million in honor of Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62, to fund research and a faculty chair in his name. The donation will finance an endowed professorship and support teaching and research activities, conferences, and fellowships in constitutional law. Steven Oliveira, the law school’s dean for development and alumni relations, declined to comment on what connection the benefactor had with Tribe or the Law School, saying only that the donor “is obviously someone who is an admirer...
...Sarkozy may also be getting comeuppance for his mocking comment to fellow conservatives last July, when he quipped that public support of his reforms had dealt the unions a deathblow. "These days, when there's a strike, no one notices," he said...
...member of the IRA in Belfast, one of many poor teenagers who joined paramilitary groups at the height of the Troubles. Fitzpatrick's parents were unaware her brother had joined the IRA until he was killed by the British army. Today, Fitzpatrick is a family support worker who counsels mostly Catholic families whose relatives were killed by the police or by British security forces. "Obviously money doesn't solve all these people's problems", says Fitzpatrick after the public meeting. "But it's an important recognition that they have suffered as well...