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Debate over the media’s treatment of high-profile trials came to the fore at Harvard Law School yesterday, as Michael Jackson’s defense attorney, Thomas Mesereau Jr. ’73, MSNBC anchor and correspondent Dan Abrams, and Middlesex County District Attorney Martha Coakley all participated in a panel on race and the Jackson trial. Mesereau, who was named one of Barbara Walters’ “10 Most Fascinating People of 2005,” served previously as the defense attorney for actor Robert Blake and accepted the Jackson case after its first...
...contemporary palate gets, the more specific it seems restaurant trends become, to the point that some establishments are going so far as to limit their focus to only one ingredient. In Milan, fashion insiders are talking about Obik (Via Mercato), a new restaurant located in the trendy Brera district and devoted solely to mozzarella. The mozzarella di bufala is flown in fresh from Naples every 24 hours. As any Italian cheese expert will tell you, after that it loses its taste...
...intelligent design” debate has kept the church-state distinction in education at the forefront of national attention, the University of California (UC) has recently been sued for violating the free speech of evangelical Christians. The suit—which is scheduled to hit the the Federal District Court of Los Angeles on Dec. 12—has been filed by six students at Calvary Chapel Christian School and by the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) who claim UC is guilty of “viewpoint discrimination.” The controversy concerns the UC?...
...fight over how evolution is taught is now being waged most directly in a federal courtroom in Pennsylvania, where an ongoing trial will decide whether ninth-graders in the Dover school district should be required to learn about intelligent design...
...Hauser, who teaches the popular core course many students know as “Sex”—Science B-29, “Evolution of Human Nature”—has been calling school district superintendents around Boston in an effort to “preempt” campaigns that would push the subject into local public school curricula...