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...every talk I give.”Starting in November, the Crimson will have to get by without Hallion’s grit and pull-up jumper, without Knox’s defense, without Budischak’s effort on the boards—and work has already begun. The rising senior class contains a trio of consistent scorers in Tay, Rollins, and captain-elect Niki Finelli, with veteran forwards Emma Moretzsohn and Liz Tindal ready to play big roles. “We have all the tools we need,” Delaney-Smith said. “This...
...boost the quitting success rate would be to match smokers with the right cessation program. A team of researchers, led by Jed Rose, director of the Duke University Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research, have begun doing just that. In their new study, the scientists screened the entire human genome and teased out a profile of genes that they think are involved in breaking nicotine addiction. Some of the genes influence basic cell communication; others code for enzymes that break down bupropion in the body. Everyone possesses all the genes in question, says Rose, but in different forms...
...alternatives—to the knee-jerk liberalism of Kennedy as well as to the simplistic atavism of Reagan—seem particularly key. Defense spending has long been a bete noire for the Democrats, and only recently have party leaders—including some presidential hopefuls—begun seriously backing plans for heightened military expenditures. It is time for Democrats to realize that their longtime blanket opposition to costly military programs has been misguided—and that there is a viable middle ground between the minimalist defense posture of Kennedy and the indiscriminate military spending...
...education-centric campaign that should be supported and continued in the Commonwealth is the recruitment of bilingual teachers from the Caribbean to Boston Public Schools. Recently, Boston’s schools have seen their percentage of Hispanic students rise to 30 percent. To help this demographic, schools have begun to recruit teachers from Puerto Rico. Although these teachers will not be teaching in Spanish, they will have the language skills necessary to help students whose first language is Spanish grapple with concepts that are too complicated for them to understand in English. While this movement should be supported, however...
...Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., a prominent civil rights scholar at the Law School who was a student there in the late 1970s, said that Harvard had begun to show “much progress” towards diversity during that period...