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...Royal defies easy categorization. She's a devoted mother of four who never married their father and a political progressive who talks of family values, law and order, and the virtue of discipline. Although a card-carrying member of France's political élite, she has cultivated a populist image by canvassing the opinions of ordinary citizens, whom she calls the "legitimate experts" on France's problems. In person, she listens with the prim attentiveness of a Catholic schoolgirl. Yet she has no false modesty over paparazzi adulation, shrugging at photos of her in a bikini that caused a stir...
...better at Yale. Or, at least, it’s safer. According to a recent survey conducted by Trojan Brand Condoms, Harvard lags behind other colleges in availability of sexual health resources. The Trojan Sexual Health Report Card, which covered 100 colleges in 50 states, ranked Harvard 43rd with a “GPA” of 2.1, while Yale topped the list with a perfect 4.0. Harvard received a C for HIV and STD testing and failed in two categories: condom availability and sex advice column in a campus publication. Contraception advice and availability won Harvard its only...
...thanks to the New York Times' David Sanger, who scooped the Washington Post on the key revelations in State of Denial this morning, we know that some of Woodward's revelations ARE new. That then-White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card urged the removal of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - that's new. That Robert Blackwill, the White House point man on Iraq in the first term, told Condi Rice and her deputy that 40,000 more troops were needed but was rebuffed - that's new, too. And there are more...
...project in fact, wasn't even his. Lula adapted an existing program and his masterstroke was to alter the way aid was disbursed. Previously, federal funds for similar programs were given to municipalities and were therefore subject to the vagaries of local powerbrokers. Lula gave the poor a cash card so they themselves could go to the bank and take out their monthly allowance. "The poor didn't always get the money," said Carlos Manhanelli, president of the Brazilian Association of Political Consultants. "Lula changed it. Today, the money that didn't always get there arrives and it is seen...
When Sidney Verba ’53 started out as director of Harvard University Library (HUL) more than 20 years ago, the school’s collections were organized in a card catalog in the basement of Widener. Now, as Verba prepares to retire, a search for books in any of the 90 University libraries is a click away via the online HOLLIS catalog...