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...Harvard College Democrats Leader of the Year award. Dean spoke before a packed audience at the forum, where he focused on the recent evolution in campaigning methods and the ways in which a changing ethos among Americans led to the election of the nation’s first African-American president. “It’s a milestone election,” Dean said. “The most important thing Obama’s election means to us, I think, is not just [his race] but that this is a new paradigm shift in who runs America...
Pope Benedict XVI • preposterous claim is made by - based on religious dogma rather than, say, science - that "You can't resolve [the African AIDS epidemic] with the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, it increases the problem...
...Indian Premier League is bringing in South African security firm Nicholls, Steyn and Associates to manage safety for the entire tournament. Company director Bob Nicholls knows just what he's up against - he was in Mumbai at the time of last November's attacks. The Indian government has also offered to provide paramilitary forces if required, even though the country will be holding general elections over six weeks coinciding with the tournament. IPL president Lalit Modi has been in a running tiff with the government over dates and venues for his tournament, and it is a measure of the importance...
...proposed moniker. Unlike the outdated name currently used, the new title would take an interdisciplinary and global approach that more accurately reflects the fluxes in population, increased globalization, and cultural changes undergone by certain ethnic groups, according to committee member Michele Lamont, professor of sociology, European studies, and African and African American studies. The comprehensiveness of the new name would allow the committee to develop a “more integrated and broader” curriculum that could better accommodate students’ intellectual needs under a larger umbrella, Lamont said. Foster—a senior lecturer on folklore...
...issuance of stamps. He played a key role in seeing that Charles Hamilton Houston was among the civil rights pioneers honored. He worked doggedly on this for years, and the fruit of his labors could not have come at a more fitting time for this nation generally and its African American community particularly...