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Revealed: how 'war hero' Kerry tried to put off Vietnam military duty By Charles Laurence in New York (Filed: 07/03/2004) Senator John Kerry, the presumed Democratic presidential candidate who is trading on his Vietnam war record to campaign against President George W Bush, tried to defer his military service for a year, according to a newly rediscovered article in a Harvard University newspaper. Senator Kerry on the campaign trail in Iowa He wrote to his local recruitment board seeking permission to spend a further 12 months studying in Paris, after completing his degree course at Yale University in the mid-1960s....

Revealed: how 'war hero' Kerry tried to put off Vietnam military duty By Charles Laurence in New York (Filed: 07/03/2004) Senator John Kerry, the presumed Democratic presidential candidate who is trading on his Vietnam war record to campaign against President George W Bush, tried to defer his military service for a year, according to a newly rediscovered article in a Harvard University newspaper. He wrote to his local recruitment board seeking permission to spend a further 12 months studying in Paris, after completing his degree course at Yale University in the mid-1960s. The revelation appears to undercut Sen Kerry's carefully-cultivated...

<p>Forty thousand dollars a year — all so your kid can become a porn star.</p> <p>Harvard College's Committee on College Life on Tuesday approved the publication of a student-run erotic magazine, the Harvard Crimson reports.</p> <p>"It's a sex magazine that will hopefully be run by students of all sexual orientations and backgrounds," gushed sophomore Katharina C. Baldegg, one of two undergraduate co-sponsors of what's to be called "The H Bomb."</p>

Harvard is adding a little blue to its crimson, letting two coeds launch a sex magazine featuring nude photos of students. Citing free speech, a Harvard committee this week approved the publication of H Bomb, as long as the racy photo shoots are kept off-campus and everyone's at least 18. "Our magazine will be all-inclusive, relevant and attractive to anyone interested in sexual issues," the founders, Katharina Baldegg and Camilla Hrdy, said yesterday in a statement released by Harvard. Although Baldegg and Hrdy told the Harvard Crimson they would not object to the mag being called porn, they insisted Harvard...

<p>February 12, 2004 -- Democratic front-runner John Kerry's past as an anti-Vietnam War activist came back to haunt him yesterday when a photo surfaced of Kerry with actress Jane Fonda at a 1970 protest rally. Fonda touches a raw nerve with many Vietnam vets, because she went to Hanoi and posed atop an anti-aircraft gun as if waiting for a chance to shoot down U.S. warplanes. That earned her the moniker "Hanoi Jane."</p>

Some excerpts... On Wednesday, the Jerusalem-born actress objected tartly in the Harvard Crimson to law student Faisal Chaudhry's April 11 essay on U.S. policy concerning Israel and the Palestinians. Portman continued: "Outrageous and untrue finger-pointing is a childish tactic that disregards the responsibility of all parties involved."