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...reversal of a former Harvard Dental School student’s rape conviction was upheld by the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court on Friday, according to the Associated Press. Martin Urban, who was charged with the rape of another dental student in 2004, successfully appealed his case in 2006 in part because the presiding judge had not given the jury a clear explanation about the standards used to determine whether an individual is too intoxicated to consent to sex. The court, in supporting the State Appeals Court’s decision to overturn Urban’s conviction, agreed that...
...shows recall Sex and the City--which returns as a movie this summer--it's no coincidence. Cashmere is produced by Star, Lipstick by Candace Bushnell, who wrote the newspaper column SATC was based on. SATC combined a fashion-conscious urban fairy tale with sharp observation of the trade-offs working women face: a little glass slipper, a little glass ceiling. It was a love story that was also about loving yourself; the series ended with Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) persuading wealthy flame Mr. Big to move to New York City--where her life and career were--rather than...
...support it. The 9/11 commission came to similar conclusions and noted that the CIA viewed bin Laden and his so-called Arab Afghans as "militarily insignificant" in the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. It is unfortunate that a distinguished scholar like Power decided to repeat this urban legend. James McKay, ALEXANDRIA...
British development company Urban Space Management put in its bid for gritty glamor with Container City, a warren of 15 artists' studios fashioned from 20 recycled containers in London's Docklands district in 2001. The crated community proved so popular, it was expanded to 40 units a year later. Since then, Urban Space has constructed 27 other buildings from recycled containers around the U.K., including classrooms, a health center and a recording studio...
Krieger said that contemporary Chinese urban development has been marked by an “incessant pressure to accommodate growth” along with more centralized decision-making...