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...Down the Stretch In the Middle East, thousands of boys from South Asia toil as jockeys in camel races, and their lives are woeful. Following government-imposed bans on jockeys under 16 in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, at least 20 experimental robots will take over the reins this fall. Kamel, a Swiss-built, lightweight, remote-controlled jockey, uses gestures similar to those of a human jockey, even whipping. Price: $5,500 each...
...woeful double standard is at work here, as evidenced by the recent events surrounding the plagiarism committed by Carl M. Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62. Tribe’s 1985 book, “God Save This Honorable Court,” fails to credit text lifted verbatim from Henry J. Abraham’s book “Justices and Presidents.” In a joint statement issued Thursday by President Summers and Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, the University declined to formally punish Tribe in any substantial way. While Tribe...
...specifics. "We're trying to figure out if this is anything more than a grudge match," says Richard Ferlauto, director of Pension and Benefit Policy at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, an activist shareholder. Such worries are weighing on the stock, which has been a woeful underperfomer, falling 22% in the past five years, while more focused firms like Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros. have doubled...
...Chiefly the ladies have Man Trouble, a subject most women will relate to and most men will find chilling in its bluntness. The ladies exchange one fascinating horror story after another of deadbeats, cheaters, grifters, psychopaths and dirty old men. While these woeful tales will elicit international sympathy, western readers will find some of the problems unfamiliar. Cultural institutions such as arranged marriages, even for girls of 13, and the premium on female virginity only add to the women's problems. In one shocking discussion, the women debate the merits of "embroidery," the Iranian euphemism for suturing the vaginal opening...
Time and again this page has bemoaned the woeful attendance at nearly all Harvard sporting events, calling upon students to make the trek across the river to support their peers and cheer on the programs that represent them...