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...Valentine—somehow, a procedural violation (no headgear in the courtroom) became a real criminal charge (fighting with an officer). This charge was not only proven false by later investigation, but was totally unwarranted in the first place. Nor was Valentine’s sentence—a ten-day jail sentence and a mandate to remove her headscarf outside of the courtroom—appropriate. Asking a Muslim woman or an Orthodox Jewess to remove her headscarf in public is like asking her to disrobe or to expose herself. In an appalling misuse of the judicial system?...

Author: By Nafees A. Syed | Title: The Fuss About Covering Up | 2/1/2009 | See Source »

Well-rested with his typically impeccable coif, Mitt Romney is back on center stage. Fresh from a ten-day vacation at the Beijing Olympics, the former Massachusetts governor barreled through Denver Tuesday, crashing the Democratic convention with a barbed audition for his possible spot on the McCain ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romney's Veep Audition | 8/26/2008 | See Source »

...Yard, I was giddy with excitement about my newfound freedoms and resources. Sleeping in! Choosing my own classes! And, of course, taking advantage of the fact Harvard Computer Services gives students free access to Adobe Photoshop. (To this day, I have yet to manage to download more than a ten-day demo, despite several admirable attempts. But a week and a half was more than enough time to Photoshop my roommates into wacky pictures). Before turning my friends into crying babies and overweight nude models, though, I responsibly used my new toy for academic purposes: making a fake wedding picture...

Author: By Nicole G. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shakespeare and Love | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...guide is Jason B. McCoy ’08. He gave a tour to a group from the SIAS University in China, who wanted McCoy to speak about education at Harvard and graduate work, despite the fact that he was 20 at the time. In return? McCoy received a ten-day, all-expenses-paid trip to China in October 2005. He spent three days being escorted by SIAS students around Beijing and seven days at the University in Xinzheng. “I got the chance to eat dinner in their Great Hall, which is like their White House, with...

Author: By Francesca T. Gilberti, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scoring Proposals, Trips to China | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...oversee Katrina spending. Clinton, who focused mainly on domestic policy issues before she entered the Senate, has emerged as a key player on defense issues; Obama is expanding his horizons with foreign policy. When Katrina hit, Obama was on his first major foreign trip as a senator, a ten-day visit to Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan, where he joined Republican Richard Lugar to learn about efforts to dispose of nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama Steps (Carefully) Into the Spotlight | 9/28/2005 | See Source »

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