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Harvard Law profs challenge federal sex-assault ‘guidance’

CAMBRIDGE – A collection of prominent law school professors, including Harvard's Alan Dershowitz, shot back at President Barack Obama's Education Department over its practice of using "Dear Colleague" letters to lay down policy mandates that ride roughshod over Americans' constitutional rights. A letter from

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Report shows disturbing rise in anti-Semitic activity on campus

With the start of the new academic term now just weeks away, there's at least one controversy that is certain to roil American college campuses again this fall: anti-Israel activism and anti-Semitism on campus. On the heels of a 2015-2016 school year in which campus activists sought to

Massachusetts

Harvard prof says treat conservative ‘losers’ like post-war Germans

CAMBRIDGE — Liberals have won the culture wars, and should start taking advantage of their victory, Harvard Law School Professor Mark Tushnet wrote in a recent blog entry that has drawn much attention for suggesting conservatives should be treated like post-war Germans and Japanese. Tushnet, who teaches constitutional and civil rights

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Harvard steps may lead down a thorny path

CAMBRIDGE – The latest call by students at Harvard University for the school to purge terms or symbols deemed offensive by a vocal minority raises what could be a confounding issue: How far will the 379-year-old school go to distance itself from historic figures whose actions and social values we would

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Harvard Law student’s anti-Semitic remark sparks uproar

CAMBRIDGE – A Harvard Law School student, who mocked a former Israeli foreign minister with what has been denounced as an anti-Semitic remark during a question-and-answer session after a school forum last week, believes the matter has been "blown out of proportion," a person close to the situation said

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Harvard Law bows to activist calls to drop slaveholder crest

CAMBRIDGE – Royall appears to be falling. Harvard Law School, which last year saw activist students demand that the institution scrub the emblem honoring the family of an early benefactor, Isaac Royall Jr., over his ownership of slaves 300 years ago, caved to pressures this week and voted to support dumping

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Harvard donor stops sponsoring events after Palestine talk

BOSTON (AP) — A major backer of Harvard Law School has stopped sponsoring student events after its donation helped pay for a discussion on Palestine.

Massachusetts

Warren bashing Citizens United echoes Sanders more than Clinton

WASHINGTON – She has yet to deliver her coveted endorsement, but Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's floor speech Thursday made it clear which Democratic presidential contender best aligns with her progressive views – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Warren railed against the "handful of billionaires" who try to shape America&