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...many people have the opportunity to see the world from a bird’s eye view. But then again, not many people can pole vault like Nico Weiler.The Crimson freshman continued his strong campaign last Friday at the Harvard/Yale-Oxford/Cambridge match in New Haven, Conn., setting a new meet record of 5.20 meters in conditions that were not exactly the most ideal for outdoor pole vaulting. “I think I did pretty well,” Weiler said. “It was pretty cold, and they considered moving the pole vault indoors. Most people performed...
...Board set to be delivered to the college dean by a student-faculty committee charged with considering the issue be made public. Former UC President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 sat on the Ad Board committee and Ad-board reform was one of his campaign platforms when he ran for president last year...
Washington being Washington, politics is rarely far from the celebration. Nancy Reagan personally called an 11-year-old girl to invite her to 1984's roll after learning that a campaign worker said the girl wouldn't be welcome due to her support for Walter Mondale. More than 100 same-sex couples showed up at the event in 2006 with their children in an organized effort to show President Bush "that gay families exist in this country," in the words of one organizer; critics accused them of "crashing" the event. The Obamas specifically welcomed gay families this year, distributing tickets...
...White House's old family dining room. And the unleavened event was led by none other than one-time Harvard Dems President Eric P. Lesser '07. Lesser, who could not be reached for comment, is currently a personal aide to Obama adviser David Axelrod. During the campaign, he served as a ground logistics coordinator (read: baggage handler...
...relatively simple way for Obama to neutralize those doubts would be to move forward with a policy to lower abortion rates, an effort his campaign pitched heavily to Catholic voters to illustrate his commitment to finding common ground with abortion opponents. A team of aides assigned to focus on abortion reduction plans to hold its first meetings with pro-life and pro-choice advocates over the next month. But it is already encountering some resistance from both sides and doesn't foresee acting on the issue in time to affect funding before the 2011 fiscal year...