New Factor in Campus Sexual Assault Cases: Counsel for the Accused

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Click Here to Read: New Factor in Campus Sexual Assault Cases: Counsel for the Accused By Aeiel Kaminer in The New York Times on November 19, 2014.

On the Columbia campus. Defense lawyers are calling attention to what they say is the injustice in the way sexual misconduct cases are investigated. Credit Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times. Continue reading New Factor in Campus Sexual Assault Cases: Counsel for the Accused

Has the war ended in Northern Uganda?

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Click Here to Read:  Has the war ended in Northern Uganda? By Okidi Richard Owor, GRG counselor on the Grassroots Reconcilliation Group Website.

Click Here to Read: Flyer for:  Wine, Film, and Conversation: An Evening with the Grassroots Reconciliation Group on Saturday November 22nd at Hotel Des Artists in NYC.

One day, when Alice was nine, she went to the well to get water for her family. Some men in uniform approached her. It was a full year before Alice set eyes on her parents again. Continue reading Has the war ended in Northern Uganda?

One Drug or 2? Parents See Risk but Also Hope

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Click Here to Read:  One Drug or 2? Parents See Risk but Also Hope By Aaln Schwarz in The New York Times on November 14, 2014.

“It makes me angry looking for solutions. I know there’s a sweet little boy in there,” said Joelle Kendle, who is weighing a decision about the use of a second drug to treat her son, Matthias, 6, for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times

Ruth Marcus: In Virginia, a cruel and unusual punishment for autism

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Click Here to Read: Ruth Marcus: In Virginia, a cruel and unusual punishment for autism By Ruth Marcus in The Washington Post on November 14, 2014

WOODBRIDGE – Lisa Alexander, holds a picture of her son, Reginald “Neli” Latson, a convicted, autistic teenager that she says needs legal help with her son’s case in Woodbridge, VA on March 11, 2011. (Linda Davidson/THE WASHINGTON POST).

Reexamining FDR’s Response to Kristallnacht

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Click Here to Read: Reexamining FDR’s Response to Kristallnacht Ken Burns and others have called it impressive, but the truth is less inspiring By Rafael Medoff on the Tablet website on November 4, 2014.

Germans pass by the broken shop window of a Jewish-owned business that was destroyed during Kristallnacht. (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD)

Click Here to Read: ‘Anti-Racist’ Group Moves to Exclude Jews from Kristallnacht Commemoration
Sharona Schwartz on The Blaze website on November 10, 2014.

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