Word: california
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Hard as it might be to top a former Gingrich employee as an object for moralizing and indignation on the part of others, Adam R. Kovacevich '99 deftly accomplished just that. Kovacevich founded The Grape Coalition, which campaigned for the return of California table grapes to the Harvard dining halls. Through a virtually single-handed effort, Kovacevich convinced 54 percent of Harvard students to support the return of table grapes despite an ad hominem and platitudinous misinformation campaign by several activist groups. As his success seemed more likely, Kovacevich became Harvard's equivalent of "The Great Satan" among activists...
Almost half the conference participants came from other colleges, including the University of Southern California, the University of Minnesota and the University of Toronto, Chung said...
...native of Fort Wayne, Ind., James was also an All-USA High School First Team member. The Lowell House resident has worked as a senior editor of the Harvard Science Review and has done research at California Institute of Technology in computational neuroscience...
Daily Spin "Easiest job ever!!!" --A brochure for nuclear-waste-eating "California Red Superworms" sold by a New Mexico man, Thomas Huntington, for $500 per 4 lbs. Huntington, 51, was arrested for multiple counts of fraud after convincing would-be entrepreneurs they could strike it rich breeding the worms for sale to nuclear-waste facilities...
...encoded for blond hair, brown eyes and perhaps bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness. Several blood relatives filed affidavits with the court saying they had been treated for the disorder. Also, she grew up in the shadow of unapproved love: her father John Schmitz, a former ultraconservative California Congressman and college lecturer, ended his career in disgrace after fathering two children by a onetime student...