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...this year, Bok, an Army veteran, and Faust did not attend the June 6 ceremony because each had prior commitments, according to Harvard spokesman John D. Longbrake. Bok was chairing his final meeting with the Harvard Corporation, the University's top governing body, and Faust was speaking to a group of Radcliffe alumnae celebrating their 50th reunion...
...more troubling. Some scholars suggest that fatherhood is by its very biological nature more fragile than motherhood, and needs to be encouraged by the society around it. And yet for all the focus on the New Father (the kind who skips the corporate awards dinner to attend the school play), the messages men receive about how they should act as parents are at best mixed and often explicitly hostile...
...Either way, Jefferson's fate has become something bigger than the man himself. He rose from a dirt-poor rural childhood to attend Harvard law school and became, in 1990, the first African-American elected to Congress from Louisiana since Reconstruction; his equally spectacular fall, if it comes, would be a bitter disappointment to many constituents. Some of them have already organized in his defense; a group calling itself the Justice for Jefferson Committee issued a statement less than a week after the indictment accusing the federal government of using "vast financial resources to manipulate the media" and calling...
Wilson said he plans to attend classes during the fall semester before heading to Spring Training and hopes to return to Cambridge to finish his requirements the following fall...
...immigration bill, but he also managed to diffuse the tension over the issue that has split his party for the last two years. "Even though we disagree on this bill, I look forward to being in Alabama," Bush joked to Sessions, whose fundraiser the President is due to attend in Alabama on Friday, and the room burst out laughing...