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...these groups are bridging ethnic boundaries.“I see more of an effort of students of all backgrounds at Harvard to reach out across racial and ethnic lines and to embrace people of different backgrounds,” said the Harvard Foundation’s director, S. Allen Counter, who has worked with cultural groups on campus for the past 25 years.The growth in the sheer number of ethnic organizations on campus does raise some concerns from administrators.In an interview this month, Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd said, “When more and more...
ARRESTED. CLAUDE ALLEN, 45, who served as President Bush's top domestic-policy adviser before resigning suddenly last month. Allen is charged with stealing more than $5,000 in goods at Target and other stores, then returning them for refunds--charges he denies...
...allegations are true," Bush said Saturday morning, "Claude Allen did not tell my Chief of Staff and legal counsel the truth, and that's deeply disappointing. ... And my first reaction was one of disappointment, deep disappointment that-if it's true-that we were not fully informed. But it was also one-shortly thereafter, I felt really sad for the Allen family...
...Allen, an advocate of home-schooling and abstinence education, is extremely well known to conservative activists as the press secretary to former Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina in his tough 1984 reelection race against then-Gov. James B. Hunt Jr., a Democrat. In 2003, Bush nominated Allen to a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., but Democrats objected and there was never a confirmation hearing. Allen was Secretary of Health and Human Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1998 to 2001, appointed by former Gov. Jim Gilmore, and came...
...Montgomery County police said that the incident for which Allen was charged occurred on Jan. 2, at a Target in Gaithersburg, when the loss prevention manager spotted a suspicious man. "He was observed in the store with an empty Target bag in a shopping cart," the statement says. "The man was then seen selecting merchandise throughout the store and placing items in the Target bag. He put additional items in his cart. The man then went to guest services where he produced a receipt and received a refund for the items he had just selected from the store shelves. After...