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...Burmese government admits that 10 people were killed in last week??s protests, although British and Australian officials say the real death toll is many times higher. Unfortunately, last week??s murders were only the latest in a long list of egregious human rights violations perpetrated by the junta. Well over 1,000 pro-democracy activists—including Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi—are now being held in prison and under house arrest. Even more disconcertingly, the Burmese military has destroyed more than 200 villages in the ethnic-minority Karen...
...readers,” said the librarian, William C. Lane, according to an editorial in The Crimson that year. While Harvard’s librarians and the Square’s booksellers no longer yank books from their shelves, they are highlighting controversial books as part of this week??s American Library Association’s “Banned Books Week.” The Square’s Harvard Book Store currently displays once-banned books ranging from Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” to William Faulkner?...
...argument and cited the potential for pain or medical injury from infection or breast engorgement if Currier were not given extra break time. “Such physical pain constitutes an unfair burden on the mental energies required for this examination,” he wrote in last week??s decision. That opinion overturned a ruling the week before by Judge Patrick F. Brady of Norfolk Superior Court, who ruled in favor of the Board. Zaroulis added that Currier would take the exam on October 10 and 11 in the event of a favorable decision. She would...
...dark, long curly hair and glasses, Casagrande is rather nonchalant about this double feat.“You can get a character up to 70 playing less than two hours a day for three months,” shrugs Casagrande, who plays on average ten to fifteen hours a week??a time commitment he considers reasonable in comparison to some more extreme WoW players.“I’ve had friends who have dropped out of school or been fired from their jobs because they want to play the game,” says Casagrande...
...from Harvard, which insisted that Congress should not dictate how university funds are spent. At a Finance Committee hearing on Wednesday, senators considered measures including the repeal of university endowments’ tax-exempt status and mandating minimum yearly payouts to help lower tuition costs. The discussion at last week??s hearing focused on the spectacular growth of university endowments, which collectively increased by 17.7 percent to dollars in fiscal year 2006, according to testimony at the hearing. Average tuition for four-year colleges in the United States, meanwhile, has risen 35 percent since 2002, according...