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Newly elected South African President Jacob Zuma addressed fears about sex trafficking in a speech last August. "We have noted the concern amongst women's groups that the 2010 FIFA World Cup may have the unintended consequence of creating opportunities for human trafficking," the President said. "We are putting systems in place to prevent this, as part of general security measures that we should take when hosting an event of this magnitude...
...admired Jean Carroll since I was a little girl. I'd see her on The Ed Sullivan Show, and then I used to actually put on shows of my own and do her jokes. She had a cocktail dress and mink; I had my mother's slip. So many women were influenced by Jean, the barrier-breaking comedian who died Jan. 1 at 98. With her breezy style, she was much more subversive than anyone probably was aware of at the time. When stand-up comics were almost universally men, she leveled the playing field with lines like...
...distance runners continued to rest, those who did don the Harvard uniform this weekend performed well against the biggest field that the Crimson will face all season. Of the over 525 entries, six resulted in Harvard victories, three on the men’s side and three for the women...
...final Crimson winner on the men’s side was rookie Jeff Homer, who captured the 500-meter title in 1:05.29. Sophomore Jared Squires finished second in the event, but the race proved even more fruitful for the Harvard women, as the squad earned four of the top seven spots. Freshman Melissa Bellin and sophomore Lauren Leon placed third and fourth to pace the Crimson, and the two runners showed even more promise in the 400. Bellin and Leon teamed with sophomore Shannon Conway and freshman Jasmine Cho to win the 4x400-meter relay by over two seconds...
This week the trial of Aafia Siddiqui, once one of the most wanted women in the war on terrorism, begins in a federal courtroom in Manhattan. Siddiqui, 37, an MIT-educated neuroscientist and suspected al-Qaeda operative, is charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at a group of U.S. soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan. The incident occurred in the city of Ghazni in July 2008, after she was detained by local police near one of the city's mosques on suspicion that she was a suicide bomber. At the time of her arrest, she allegedly had with...