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Recognizing a courageous display of commitment to law and democracy amidst the ongoing turmoil in Pakistan, the Harvard Law School (HLS) Association announced on Tuesday that it would award Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry the Harvard Law School Medal of Freedom. Chaudhry is currently being held under house arrest in Pakistan, so for the time being, he will not be able to travel to Cambridge to receive the award, HLS’s highest honor. The Chief Justice was detained after he convened the Pakistani Supreme Court to declare the national state of emergency imposed by President Pervez Musharraf null...
...whining at Harvard is today facing a grave threat to its very existence. In a cruel blow to academic freedom, truth, and justice, the Faculty voted at its meeting this past Tuesday to put the kibosh on a motion by anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82, which resolved, “that this Faculty commits itself to fostering civil dialogue in which people with a broad range of perspectives feel safe and are encouraged to express their reasoned and evidence-based ideas.” With such a blow to free speech, the Faculty have put their...
...multicultural resources, according to a report by the Columbia Spectator. Finally, starting today, students at UMass-Amherst plan to stage a two-day strike to push for decreased student fees and a relaxation of aggressive police patrols of dormitories. The university’s administration met with strikers on Tuesday, but “agreed to disagree,” said spokesman Ed F. Blaguszewski. “It is very unlikely that, given the pressing needs of the university, we will roll back student fees.” He added that the university will be “open...
...mostly too subtle to impress students, according to gym-goers interviewed yesterday. After the MAC closed for improvements last March, athletes migrated to Hemenway Gymnasium. Students said working out at the TV-outfitted, air-conditioned law school gym fed high expectations for the MAC’s re-opening Tuesday. “I thought they were going to do something with it like add another floor or something crazy like that,” said Shane P. Donovan ‘09, an Eliot House resident and captain of the club tennis team. But the improvements were less flashy...
...hasn't been the best year for the Spanish royals. During the summer, a satirical magazine published a risque cartoon of the heir to the throne, Prince Felipe, and his wife Letizia. (On Tuesday, Spain's national court fined the magazine's publishers 3,000 euros for "insulting the monarchy.") The couple were already having a tough year: A few months earlier, Letizia's sister had committed suicide. This fall, groups of Catalan nationalists publicly burned photos of the king and queen, and last week, Morocco's monarch temporarily recalled his ambassador from Madrid to protest the Spanish monarch...