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Nancy E. De Haro ’12 said that her parents were initially unsure about her decision to attend Harvard over a college in her home state of California. A promotional brochure about Harvard in Spanish would have been helpful in validating her college choice, she said...
Devin Nunes, a California Congressman who worked closely with Ryan to develop the proposal, says making their policies politically palatable will be a gradual process, one that involves locating an array of co-sponsors - hopefully from both sides of the aisle. "There haven't really been any conversations between our little group and the [Republican] leadership," Nunes says. "The leadership has got to be concerned about winning the next election, whereas Paul and I are concerned with having a win for the country." Their goal, he adds, is to spark serious debate, and "then, in 2012, if the conditions...
Perhaps if the good people of Massachusetts had to live in my state, they would not have been so eager to derail President's Obama's health care reform. I live in an area of California where 36.3% of the people lack health insurance and more than 17% are unemployed. Our emergency rooms are jammed with nonpaying customers. I am white, middle class and highly educated and can barely pay for insurance. The state and local safety nets are in tatters. Think about us next time you vote...
...Supreme Court prohibited the federal trial regarding Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, from being filmed or broadcast on YouTube. But actor John Ainsworth and filmmaker John Ireland found a loophole. The duo, legally married to their respective husbands, found a mock courtroom at the University of Southern California, hired a group of actors and began re-enacting the proceedings on the basis of courtroom transcripts and firsthand accounts from journalists present at the trial. The episodes began airing online...
Today that brand of moderate Republicanism remains a force in state and local politics. At the national level, however, it is nearly extinct. Northeastern or California Republicans who aspire to national office often feel compelled to reinvent themselves: see Romney, Mitt, career...