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...institute--an umbrella group that governs Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the Hasty Pudding social club, the Pitches and the Krokodiloes--sold the land the Pudding building sits on to the University, but retained ownership of the building. As a result, the graduate board was paying Harvard for use of the land...
...rationale behind the ruling was not that nude dancing itself is an unworthy form of expression--the court has consistently found this kind of activity under the protective umbrella of the First Amendment--but that the state has a legitimate stake in limiting so-called "negative secondary effects." Nude dancing at adult establishments, the city reasoned, leads to increased rates of crime and prostitution and decreases in surrounding property values. Accepting this line of reasoning, the court upheld the ordinance...
Still, they weren't offering any apologies over their most recent move. Rabbi Paul Menitoff, the executive vice president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the umbrella group of Reform Judaism, used strong language in describing why his organization had made its decision. "Can you imagine the impact on [gays] after so many negative messages from all those religious groups?" he told the Washington Post. Some saw the remark as directed at Catholics - gay rights groups have criticized the pope in recent weeks for his failure to include gays in his mass apology for the church's past sins...
...Time Warner. The union of the Tribune and the Times Mirror companies removes local control from one of the best newspapers in the country. It remains to be seen whether this merger will still allow for the autonomy of the various news sources now combined under the Tribune Co. umbrella, rather than leading to a homogenization of reporting...
...Babies "R" Us to order the smock, and she has since recouped her initial $25,000 investment. But it's her second invention, the StrollerStand, a kickstand for strollers, that Lowey Luttway, now the mother of two, thinks will be a big success. "If you've ever pushed an umbrella stroller packed with shopping bags, you know the minute you take your kid out, it tips over," she says, speaking from experience...