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...flag in front of Kirkland House last night, the Alaska “Klub” of Harvard pitched their tents in the Malkin Athletic Center Quad, where Jell-o was still drying on the grass from Saturday’s gelatin wrestling event. The club had a long agenda planned for their first annual camp-out, ranging from the traditional bonfire and s’mores to a fly-fishing course and a late-night streaking expedition...
...value Nolan’s inquisitive presence on the committee. “I think she’s what the Cambridge Public Schools needed at this time, someone that’s good with data, someone that asks a lot of questions, someone that wants to push the agenda to a new level,” says senior School Committee member Alfred B. Fantini. BACK TO CAMBRIDGEBefore Nolan earned a seat on the School Committee, her post-Harvard life was filled with non-government jobs.“My life after graduation has been so varied...
...making the news” or “creating the news” with the Viswanathan scoop. These people see the role of newspapers as reporting events that have already happened or are a matter of public record. Newspapers, they argue, are only furthering their own agenda when they drive news coverage by reporting previously unreported facts. I would argue, however, that investigating and uncovering news is exactly what newspapers ought to do, and that reporting what is already out in the open comes second to that. Our best stories are those that report facts and events that people...
...left, then he's on the right, then he's right of the right," says Stéphane Rozès, director of the polling institute CSA-Opinions. "The only consistency is that he's out in front: he won't let anyone deprive him of setting the agenda." That may get him his immigration law, but as the presidential race develops over the next 12 months, he will have to win back some of the social-minded centrists who still see generosity as a quintessential trait of the French state. But relying on that moderate bloc anywhere in Europe...
This episode seems mostly to reflect wishful thinking by church progressives. "Let's not forget that Martini's camp was essentially the loser in last year's conclave," a Vatican official says. The conservatives won, and contraception does not seem to be high on Pope Benedict XVI's agenda. In late November, he listed several ways to combat the spread of HIV, including chastity, fidelity in marriage and antipoverty efforts. He did not mention condoms...