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...federal judge ruled at a Wednesday hearing that three Harvard alums have two weeks to amend their complaints alleging that the founder of Facebook.com—the popular social-networking Web site—stole the idea for the site from them...
...bill, known as H.B. 3249, is the latest attempt by proponents of greater transparency to amend the state’s public-records laws. Last year, a similar bill was passed by state senators but failed when it was brought before the House...
...While previous violent incidents at Harvard have also spurred administrators to amend specific deficiencies in the University’s broad crises management plans and tactics, University officials admit that it is difficult to identify truly troubled students due to privacy considerations...
...give Romney an opportunity to take the national stage on a pair of social issues that matter a lot to conservatives: stem-cell research and gay marriage. When the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled on Nov. 18, 2003, that the state constitution mandates gay marriage, he undertook to amend the constitution to ban it. He also called for a federal constitutional amendment, getting to the right of McCain on the issue. And he went to war with the Democratic legislature over stem-cell research, though his position on that issue is not entirely consistent with that of pro-life groups. Romney...
Does history repeat itself? If you’re one of Harvard’s rabid calendar reform activists, the answer had better be a resounding no.The current push to amend the College’s schedule—aiming to start the fall term earlier and holding exams in December—is nothing new. “Calendar reform has been on the table at Harvard since the seventies,” said Undergraduate Council [UC] representative Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10. Every time the reform movement has achieved prominence, it has been met with...