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Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. urged Congress last Tuesday to investigate racial inequalities in the nation’s education and justice systems, and said the federal government should pressure states to rectify these inequalities. Speaking in front of the House Judiciary Committee, Ogletree—who is an advisor to the lawyers of the six black students controversially indicted in Jena, La. earlier this year—said that the Jena case highlights larger problems in the American legal and education systems. “Jena’s most important role is in lending drama...
...they seemed visitors from a higher realm. Their names still say "class": Vivien Leigh, Wendy Hiller, Jean Simmons, Claire Bloom. Of course, in a class by herself, Audrey Hepburn. And Deborah Kerr, whose grounded grace illuminated some of the best relics from the 40s and 50s, and who died Tuesday...
...always wanted to start a book with, ‘Something is alive and well,’” author Stephen King said at Memorial Church on Tuesday. However, he was unable to offer such a prognosis for the medium being discussed that evening. “The short story is alive, but it isn’t what I’d call well.” King, the editor of “The Best American Short Stories 2007,” was joined at the Harvard Book Store event by Heidi Pitlor, the series editor...
...will represent the United States at the Women’s Four Nations Cup in Leksland, Sweden. Tri-captain Caitlan Cahow and last year’s co-captain Julie Chu ’07 were selected to the U.S. Women’s Select Team on Tuesday and will travel to Sweden for the five-day tournament, which takes place Nov. 7-11. Both are listed as defensemen on the roster. Cahow’s national team experience dates back to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, where she helped the squad take home a bronze medal...
From her sobbing, you'd have thought state child welfare agents had just removed adopted children from Ellen DeGeneres's home. But the buckets of tears the celebrity comic shed on her syndicated television talk show on Tuesday were for her dog - a Brussels Griffon terrier that a pet adoption agency had just repossessed because DeGeneres broke the agency contract and gave the canine, Iggy, to another family. (If you're interested, she gave Iggy to that other family because the dog and her cats didn't get along). "I'm sorry I did the wrong thing," DeGeneres pleaded. "Just...