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...audience of more than 240 people. “This is the time for peace.” University President Lawrence H. Summers lauded Dershowitz in a letter that was read aloud to the crowd. “If vigorous debate and a relish for ideas are the lifeblood of a university, then Alan Dershowitz is a vital part of Harvard’s blood supply,” Summers wrote. Members of Dershowitz’s family also spoke at the event, including his brother Nathan, two of his children, and his wife, psychologist Carolyn Cohen. Dershowitz?...
...that House Committees (HoCos) are the lifeblood of Harvard College’s social scene would not be far from the truth. Although other clubs and groups have events for their members, and although the Undergraduate Council (UC) throws an occasional campus-wide bash, HoCos are the one common denominator reverberating throughout the undergraduate social experience. Week in and week out, they provide countless opportunities for everything from partying to House bonding to forming friendships with housemates that one would never otherwise meet. HoCos across campus share two common attributes. First, from an efficiency standpoint, a dollar spent on HoCo...
...Gambian port of Farafenni is a ghost town. Bereft of customers, traders are closing their shops, pulling down corrugated shutters and tugging on the padlocks to make sure they're secure. A two-month-old dispute between Gambia and its enveloping neighbor Senegal has cut river crossings, the lifeblood of Farafenni's business, to a trickle. "This is hurting both of us," says port tax collector Karamo Marong, counting out a thin clump of sweaty bills that is his day's meager haul. "And it's ordinary people who suffer." At issue is not just bureaucracy but the crazy quilt...
...sensibilities," says Melbourne solicitor Murray Baird, a specialist in church law. "The Act does not achieve this. In my view it will lead to a general fear of speaking openly and plainly about religious matters." In free societies, says Australian Family Association vice-president Bill Muehlenberg, passion is the lifeblood of religious debate: "If you're serious about your faith and its truth claims, you're bound to be offended at times, or to cause offense." Elizabeth Kendal, a Melbourne-based religious liberty monitor for the World Evangelical Alliance, believes laws like Victoria's will undermine all but the most...
...from 2% in the first four years of the decade. That growth rate, said the IMF, could help developing countries boost exports by 5% to 6% each year and thus ease their loan burdens. In the meantime, though, the debtor nations have to continue hoping that the lifeblood of credit from the IMF and banks will keep flowing. --By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York with other bureaus