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Andy Fatek, PHILADELPHIA...
...approved of the job Congress was doing last month, with 80% disapproving. And while they have mostly been aimed at Democrats who voted in favor of health care, threats have been made against at least one Republican, Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia. Last week a man was arrested in Philadelphia for making Internet video threats against Cantor and his wife, seemingly because of their Jewish faith. (See more about health care...
...Harvard activists comprised one branch of an April Fool’s Day campaign involving pranks by AIDS activist groups in New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and Florida—all coordinated by the national AIDS and human rights activist group Health Global Access Project. HAC, accompanied by alumni and students from Harvard Medical School and Boston University, rallied in Bowdoin Square in front of Sen. Kerry’s office before going in to present the check and discuss AIDS funding with Sen. Kerry’s Foreign Relations staffer Chris Wyman...
...scheduled to give a lecture at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies today, following a conference in Philadelphia. But last Wednesday, the director of the Beijing Film Academy informed her that she was forbidden to travel, which Cui attributed to her advocacy of human rights and free speech...
...testimony given at a Senate immigration hearing in July 2009, Illinois Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, who has led the drive for immigration reform in the House, pointed out that an error rate of just 1% would mean that more than 1.5 million people - roughly the population of Philadelphia - would be wrongly deemed ineligible for work. "This is no small number," he said, "especially in this economy, where so many workers already face extraordinary obstacles to finding a job." Dean Pradeep Khosla, founding director of Carnegie Mellon's cybersecurity lab, estimates that the error rates of computerized systems would likely...