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Several Harvard undergraduates held signs outside the Holyoke Center yesterday afternoon, trying to coax fellow students and Cambridge residents to call their congressmen and encourage them to vote against the Stupak Amendment...
Convincing more than 20 passersby to call congressmen, the half-dozen volunteers represented the Students Against Stupak, a subsidiary of campus organization Students for Choice. They handed out free condoms and coupons to J.P. Licks as incentives to boost what rally organizers said was a national effort to flood representatives with calls to kill the amendment to the House Health Care bill...
...Health Care bill were to pass with this amendment, the result would be a women’s health care crisis,” said Leah Reis-Dennis ’13, who led the call-in initiative...
...House event to highlight the Administration's efforts on HIV/AIDS. In perhaps an implicit acknowledgement that this year's commitment has been less than robust, the word of the day was recommitment. On Tuesday U.S. global AIDS coordinator Eric Goosby released a five-year strategy for what Obama officials call "the next phase of PEPfAR." As Clinton described it on Monday, that next phase will focus on "transitioning from emergency response to sustainable health systems that help meet the broad medical needs of people with...
...NATO forces in Afghanistan believe they can continue the battle despite Pakistan's tolerance of the Afghan Taliban leadership within its borders. Should Pakistani policy move toward active aid and support, however, the task of defeating the Afghan insurgency would become impossibly difficult. (See Europe's response to the call for more troops...