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...Within 24 hours, the UC convened to discuss the College’s attack on its party grant system. A majority of the representatives voted not to terminate the grants immediately, as well as to set aside $2,000 for potential legal expenses...
...This should not be taken as a snide attack on any of my classmates. Harvard has, and should continue, to provide leaders in every sector of private and public life, as long as they aren’t wandering as I was, without a clear purpose and susceptible to distractions. Conscious of what we have been given, of the status afforded our university and of what is expected of us, we should all be working at whatever we do with sure hand, clear eye and sharpened power toward a more just and equitable society. The “hour?...
...first half 17-for-27 for 244 yards—the defense completely manhandled the Bulldog offense. With McLeod shut down, Yale was forced to turn to the passing game. Averaging just 116.2 yards per game passing coming in, the Bulldogs were woefully unprepared for the air-based attack. Yale quarterback Matt Polhemus, under relentless pressure from the Crimson defense, finished 2-for-18 for just 29 yards and two interceptions while being sacked twice...
...appeal to a court decision annulling a Muslim couple's marriage on the grounds that the wife had lied about being a virgin before the wedding, the acclaim was almost universal. The ruling's logic - essentially creating the legal concept of chastity fraud - was widely seen as an attack on women's rights that undermined decades of progress on sexual attitudes. The lower court's ruling seemed as well to have put Muslim religious concerns above France's strictly secular laws. But for the woman whose public repudiation sparked the controversy, Dati's decision means something else: the prolongation...
...rights are never secured, but we never thought we'd see such regression in our country," reacted Martine Aubry, the Socialist mayor of Lille, where the case was heard. France's conservative secretary of state for social solidarity, Valérie Létard, called the decision "an attack on the integrity of women and a violation of the fundamental rights of all individuals...