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...Harvard listed “Science & Technology” as the school’s top issue, the University having filed 38 reports of lobbying on this issue in the past six years. This is a common practice for institutions of higher education hoping for research grants, according to Alex Knott, political editor for the CPI. Harvard Senior Director of Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey said that this type of lobbying is important because Harvard relies on the $450 million per year it receives in federal funding for research. Stem cell research is one current focus of this research...
...core in the American dialogue where they’d at least talk about it.” This combats the kind of isolation felt by the London bombers, he said. Director of the KSG’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy Alex S. Jones questioned Sennott on whether terrorism is caused by fundamentalist Islam’s primary concern with secularism or with Western culture at large. Sennott agreed that cultural differences are a motivating factor for terrorists, but said that especially on an individual level, Muslims are more likely to engage in dialogue...
...Harvard in Allston display room in the Holyoke Center. It was past 4 p.m. last Thursday, and still no students had arrived for a brainstorming session organized for the Undergraduate Council (UC) by Allston planners. “A real undergraduate?” Graduate School of Design professor Alex Krieger asked hopefully as a student entered the room. Krieger, a professor in practice of urban design, is co-founder of Chan Krieger & Associates, the firm charged with developing a program for the non-academic components of Harvard’s new campus across the Charles River. He encouraged...
...report that top state officials took steps "to cover up these disappearances" and "may themselves be involved." All such charges have been flatly denied by Lukashenko and his aides. In public, Belarusian citizens display a remarkable indifference to the rigors of their life. At home, though, they're grumbling. Alex, a small businessman who refused to give his last name, says he envies the freedom people have "to make money and live" in Ukraine. "They don't have to pay bribes now, they are no longer afraid of the police, fire inspectors, tax officials and other extortionists," he says. Tanya...
...Vitt added. “I felt really comfortable out there even though these are tough games because there are so few chances.”Equally impressive, though very different, was the performance of Vitt’s counterpart—Union’s Alex Zirbel. Zirbel faced relentless pressure from the Harvard offense and wound up with 51 stops, many of them sprawling or diving saves from close range. “She’s really good,” Stone said. “She made some tough shots look easy by playing the angles...