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She’s a baroness in the House of Lords and the first Muslim front-bencher in British parliamentary history, but now Kishwer Falkner has a new honor to attach to her name: Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow. She joins five others who, according to the IOP Fellows Committee chair, sport “the most diverse backgrounds in recent memory.” The other fellows include Congressional aide James F. Flug ’60, grassroots political organizer Karen Hicks, youth service corps leader Alan A. Khazei ’83, Republican communications strategist Christina Martin...
...People who like the big picture like sitting in the back benches, and Bush was known as a back bencher,” remembers Charles Braxton...
Melendez, after a year off, heads a few hundred yards north of Canaday Hall to Harvard Law School. In the meantime, he is looking for a job and maintaining close ties to the Council, where he served as a loud and often nettlesome back-bencher this year. Melendez also worked this year as a paid executive secretary to the Council, a move Touhey says did not help him gain a sense of independence and self-confidence. "Brian at Harvard has developed so much of his identity from the Undergraduate Council," Touhey says...
...that time, Powell's obsession so embarrassed Britain's Conservatives that Tory Leader Edward Heath booted his maverick front bencher out of the shadow cabinet. Powell later gave up a Tory seat he had held for 24 years, joined the Ulster Unionists and returned to Parliament from South Down, a Northern Ireland district, but his clipped mustache and hypnotic blue eyes remain familiar all over the country...
...Divinity School. In 1963, he became an assistant dean of the College, serving an apprenticeship of sorts under John U. Monro '34, then dean of the College and now director of freshman studies at a black college in Alabama. Epps describes himself during this period as a "back-bencher" at meetings of the Administrative Board...