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...Harvard’s all-male final clubs, was unexpectedly thrust into the middle of the Supreme Court fight in Washington yesterday as conservatives criticized Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s membership in the club. Republican activists said that Kennedy, the senior Democrat from Massachusetts, had been hypocritical for attacking Judge Samuel A. Alito’s membership in Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP), a conservative group founded in 1972 in part to oppose coeducation at the university. Alito claimed to be a member of the alumni group in a 1985 job application. Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh sought...
Perhaps the biggest scandal has thrust the spotlight onto the obscure sport of skeleton, in which "sliders" on sleds speed headfirst down an icy track. Several female athletes have accused U.S. team coach Tim Nardiello of sexual harassment. In a note to the board of the sport's governing body, Felicia Canfield, who did not make the Olympic team, said that Nardiello "tried to kiss me on the lips" and that she "along with a dozen other athletes have heard Tim say over the radio, "The only time I want to see your legs spread like that...
Support for EC will enable the pro-life community to assume a position that can’t be defeated by images of bloody third-trimester fetuses thrust into the faces of Americans. So it is upsetting that the pro-choice community hasn’t made such argumentation more central to its reasoning, and more publicly prominent, especially at Harvard...
...Jones agreed and pointedly rejected intelligent design as a legitimate scientific theory. ?To be sure, Darwin?s theory of evolution is imperfect,? he wrote. ?However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom or to misrepresent well-established scientific propositions...
Stem-cell scientist Hwang Woo Suk, whose groundbreaking cloning of human embryos thrust South Korea to the forefront of bioscience research, is fighting for his professional life in a controversy that is degenerating into one of the biggest scientific scandals in years...