A Boston, Massachusetts, police officer who sent a mass e-mail in which he referred to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
‘Jungle monkey’ e-mail jeopardizes Boston officer’s job
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Obama: Police who arrested professor ‘acted stupidly’
President Obama said that police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, "acted stupidly" in arresting a prominent black Harvard professor last week after a confrontation at the man’s home. “I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played,” Obama said Wednesday night while taking questions after a White House news conference
Student hopes to go from homeless to Harvard
Kenneth Chancey, 17, walks down the littered streets of Skid Row, one of the roughest areas of Los Angeles.
Darfuri women live ‘nightmare,’ Harvard-backed study says
An American human rights group documenting widespread sexual violence against Darfuri women in Sudan and Chad has called for "vigorous prosecution of rape as a war crime." Physicians for Human Rights, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, issued a report Sunday “documenting the scope and long-term impact of rape and other sexual violence” experienced by women who fled the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur and now live as refugees in neighboring Chad. The report — titled “Nowhere To Turn: Failure To Protect, Support and Assure Justice for Darfuri Women” — is based on interviews with 88 female refugees living in Chad’s Farchana refugee camp
Stem-Cell Researchers Cheer Obama’s Vote for Science
“All right, there we go.” With those words and a swish of his pen, President Barack Obama reversed one of the most controversial executive orders in recent history. In front of the country’s leading scientific minds, including Dr. Francis Collins, who helped map the human genome, and Dr
Low-fat? Low-carbs? Answering best diet question
The dieting world screams with contradictory advice: Carbs are evil; carbs are good for you.