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After the verdict, Judge John Kavanewsky denied Skakel bail and refused his request to address the court. Outside the courthouse, no one was celebrating. Martha's brother John called the victory hollow, saying: "It doesn't bring Martha back." Mickey Sherman, Skakel's lawyer, declared himself "bitterly disappointed" and discussed grounds for appeal. Said brother David: "Michael is innocent. I know this because I know Michael like only a brother does...
Roused in part by the President-elect's hawkish talk, the U.S. Congress looks ready this summer to approve the Bush Administration's request for some half a billion dollars in military aid for Colombia; it would be the first time the U.S. has funded counterinsurgency in Latin America since the 1980s. In response, the Marxist FARC has stepped up its violence. That is drawing more fire still from the nation's outlawed right-wing paramilitary groups, the Colombian Self-Defense Units, or AUC, which are infamous for massacring villagers they deem friendly to the FARC. On election night, Uribe...
...poor prospects in Cambridge may have helped in opening professors’ minds to the prospects raised by Allston. A Law School committee created at Summers’ request is said to have thought creatively about the opportunities across the river...
...February 1995, Provost Albert Carnesale, who was then-acting president during a leave of absence by Rudenstine, proposed the establishment of the unaffiliated trust that continues to fund ROTC to this day. But Carnesale denied the Faculty’s request that the ROTC commissioning ceremony be removed from Harvard Yard...
...council voted to ban the commissioning ceremony from Harvard property, a proposal which was ignored by the University. In 1999 it voted to request that the University permit on-campus recruiting and provide direct funding and shuttle bus service to MIT, a resolution that was also refused...