Harvard Law student’s anti-Semitic remark sparks uproar

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 Thursday.

The person said the student, Husam el-Coulaq, who leads the school's Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, didn't want his name to be made public after asking a forum speaker why she was "smelly."

Daffodils around Nantucket announce the arrival of spring
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Daffodils around Nantucket announce the arrival of spring

Diane Kilgore

The Nantucket Chamber of Commerce hosts its 42nd annual Daffodil Festival Friday, April 29 through Sunday, May 1. That weekend an estimated 3 million daffodils are expected to be in bloom on the 304-square-mile island also known as "The Little Grey Lady of the Sea."

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