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...Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Gilmar Ferreira Mendes spoke about the Brazilian constitution to a packed conference room in Harvard Law School’s Pound Hall, yesterday afternoon. Mendes was appointed to the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court in 2002, and became the President of the Court in 2008. Billy Magnuson and Alex Crohn, the co-editors-in-chief of the Harvard International Law Journal said that Mendes initially informed them that he would be in the Cambridge area and available to speak this month. “Justice Mendes has a lot of experience with comparative...
...Benet Magnuson ’06 towers over his roommates by a head—and then some.One roommate lounges on the sofa in a faded purple Cornell sweatshirt. The others recline by Magnuson on the bed, one sporting a black and white ensemble with a necklace of bulky black beads, the other a teal cardigan over a flimsy floral top. Though stylishly dressed, the Mather residents are a bit limited in the time-honored rooming tradition of clothes borrowing. In this suite, Magnuson is the only male. After two years of negotiating red tape and regulations, he finally convinced...
...brochures describing how his chickens "wobble around as they please." And wheat farmer Karl Kupers touted the environmental benefits of no-till planting. "Students come up and shake your hand and call you a hero," said Kupers, whose co-op sells to seven area colleges. Spokane senior Emily Magnuson, 21, echoed the sentiment. "It's a homey feeling to know who's growing your food," she said as the scent of fresh-baked bread made from Kupers' wheat wafted out of the kitchen...
...smashes into a mountain, there is no escape, except for the very few--four this time--favored by the whims of fate. That was tragically clear last week as the helicopters carried body after body, wrapped in bright blankets, down from the smoldering wreckage on Mount Osutaka. --By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Yukinori Ishikawa/Fujioka and Edwin M. Reingold/Tokyo
...will never end. It will never end." He was, of course, referring to the horrible ordeal he had just endured. But he could just as easily have been describing the inevitable cycle of terror and retaliation that has come to characterize politics in the Middle East. --By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Walter Galling/Rome and Gertraud Lessing/Vienna