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Moreover, the constitutional claims have been rejected both by the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) and by U.S. District Judge John C. Lifland who, in denying plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction, shot down its basic free speech argument in very strong language. Lifland found that the Solomon statue “does not directly target speech…discriminate on the basis of viewpoint;” that its “interference with speech and other protected rights is incidental;” and that “law schools cannot ‘erect...
President Summers’ letter of Nov. 21 to HLS Lambda rejects a similar request by Harvard Law School students, a majority of the Law School faculty and many other members of the Law School community. HLS faculty members are expected to sue, as have similar faculty groups at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. These suits are well worthwhile, and we support them. But they are no substitute for direct involvement by Harvard as an institution. It is President Summers’ responsibility to defend the Harvard community...
...most direct route to Libya, but learns it is too dangerous for a Somali to travel there without proper documentation. For more than a month, he goes every other day to the Sudanese consulate to request an entry visa. Finally an official makes it clear that if he doesn't want to wait indefinitely, it will cost some extra cash. He slips the official $100, pays another $90 to a uniformed man at the border, and after four days on the bus arrives in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. It is April 8. He catches a city bus to the International...
...faxed a request to the Chinese Embassy in Washington on Monday for a meeting with Wen himself, according to The Boston Globe. But as of Tuesday night, she hadn’t received a response...
...facebook, it would be ideal if students could choose from varying degrees of inclusion. For privacy issues, some might wish to have their picture and personal information available to only a portion of the community—perhaps only those in their House or class—a request that is easy enough to accommodate with reasonable coding...