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If you're stuck in a North Korean jail, and Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter come walking through your cell's door, you are going home. Just ask Aijalon Mahli Gomes, 31, of Mattapan, who was released by North Korea on Thursday to Carter after being in prison there since January. Gomes faced eight years of hard labor in North Korea after entering the country illegally. He is due to return to Boston today. Carter traveled there as a private citizen, with the knowledge of President Barack Obama's administration. In 2009, former president Bill Clinton visited North Korea in a similar capacity to release two American journalists. [CNN, Globe]
- Boston has to pay city police officers $16.5 million to settle a labor dispute that started in 1994. [Boston Globe]
- Massachusetts was awarded $250 million through the "Race to the Top" school reform grant competition. Boston will get over $66 million. [WBZ]
Jimmy Carter spoke at Brandeis last night about his controversial book Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid, and the event was a civilized discussion instead of a much-feared shouting match among Carter, Alan Dershowitz, and Brandeis students.
Brandeis University won't let director Jonathan Demme film former president Jimmy Carter's speech at the school on Tuesday night.
Last month controversy erupted surrounding an invitation extended President Jimmy Carter to speak at Brandeis. The invitation was extended by a trustee with the suggestion that he make Waltham a stop on his book tour and have a little debate with Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. Carter gave the idea a thanks but no thanks response. Carter’s newest book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid was publicly criticized by Dershowitz who has asserted that the former President is taking a critical look at Israel while ignoring other, and according to Dershowitz more significant, human rights problems in Saudi Arabia. While the initial invitation was twice declined, a new invitation was extended to Carter by faculty and students. Their invitation was to speak and take questions, but Dershowitz was not on the table. The group is looking to increase a dialog about the Israeli-Palestine conflict on campus, an issue on which Carter’s perspective is not presented with regularity. Carter has agreed to make an appearance at Brandeis under these conditions.
A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut; discuss.