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...here - to help make this possible and to see the faces on those girls as they entered the East Room in all its glory and to be sitting around these tables with women they saw on TV or saw on the news, and to have them having real conversations. Alicia Keyes, who's the idol of every single girl under 30 probably - when she came in, she literally walked around to every single table, because everybody is still a little sort of "I'm in the White House. Let me behave...
...years, Susi shared her space at the zoo with another African elephant, a few years her senior, named Alicia. When Alicia died in February 2008, the loss came as a blow, according to the animal-welfare organizations Libera and the Foundation for the Adoption, Sponsorship and Defense of Animals (FAADA). "She's living in 1,000 square meters of concrete, which are not proper conditions for an elephant," says Alejandra Garcia, spokesperson for the Free Susi campaign. "But as long as she had Alicia she was more or less O.K. Now, though, she's apathetic, her trunk hangs...
...doctor treating you," says Miquel Trepat, director of Barcelona Zoo. "And in this case, our veterinarians and technicians - the people who deal with Susi every day - say that she's in a perfect state of health." To be clear, he emphasizes, "Susi's behavior hasn't changed since Alicia died." (See 10 animal species in danger of extinction...
...sting. The zoo says it is undertaking temporary measures to improve Susi's living conditions, nearly doubling the space dedicated to elephants and replacing the concrete floors with dirt, which is kinder to elephants' sensitive feet. It has also been actively searching for a new companion for Susi since Alicia died. "That's not a solution," replies Garcia about the improvement plans. "[The current condition of the elephant quarters] just makes things worse for another elephant...
...percent, many students say more needs to be done.But while students have sought changes to promote the school’s mission of public services, they say administrators have not taken the issue seriously.“I think good intentions are there,” says Alicia S. Kaskela, co-chair of the Student Public Service Collaborative. “But I don’t think they’ve really been borne out in practice.”‘ZERO COMMUNICATION’While students say they believe the Kennedy School, and especially its current...