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...representative for the Iraqi History Project Etelle R. Higonnet drew attention to the under-reported phenomenon of sexual violence in Iraq yesterday during a lecture at Harvard Law School. As analysis director for the project, Higonnet called this widespread human rights violation “one of the most revolutionary, interesting and unknown things” in Iraq and said it was a significant aspect of the nation’s past and present struggle. The project, created and funded by the International Human Rights Law Institute at Depaul University, has gathered over 10,000 testimonies from victims, perpetrators...
...Numerous Harvard students have a firsthand view of the homeless epidemic by volunteering at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter on 66 Winthrop St. “Working at the shelter has taught me how to listen and respect people without judging them,” said Eleanor R. Wilking ’09, a senior director of the shelter. When asked about the recent rise in homelessness, however, Wilking said, “It would be hard to know how many more people have been coming [due to the economic downturn], since the shelter is only open between...
mbridge at midnight for a 24-hour trip to Washington D.C. to hear two Supreme Court cases and meet with Justice David H. Souter ’61 next Tuesday. In preparation for the excursion, former Vermont Supreme Court Chief Justice Jeffrey L. Amestoy and Harvard Law Professors Noah R. Feldman and Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr. discussed the context and facts of the two cases in Lowell House library last night...
...said he would like to see the drop-in program extended to the rest of the upperclassman houses and the freshman dorms. During the pilot program, only students in four houses—Adams, Lowell, Mather and Pforzheimer—will have access to the drop-in hours. Sara R. Zaidi ’11, who serves as a director of Student Mental Health Liaisons, said the program could be successful because of the proximity factor. “They are putting resources where students live and eat and spend most of their time,” she said...
...financial analyst at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Sony Pictures, left two suicide notes - one for police and another for family and friends - and a will. "I understand he was unemployed, his dealings in the stock market had taken a disastrous turn for the worse," said Los Angeles deputy police chief Michel R. Moore. "This was a person who had been quite successful in this arena." Amid news of the global financial crisis and the credit crunch, this murder-suicide has become emblematic of the times - in its way parallelling the deathly plunges of Wall Street stockbrokers...