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...descended upon the CGIS South Building on Saturday, armed with ideas on how to revitalize the economy of their native island. The symposium was part of a two-day conference, “Restoring Economic Growth in Puerto Rico,” presented by the Harvard-MIT Puerto Rico Caucus. The caucus held the conference so that professors, businessmen, government officials, and students could exchange their proposals for economic reform. “We wanted to create an intellectual forum,” said Luis A. Martinez ’08, the lead Harvard representative in the caucus. The caucus...
Kerry appeared fairly polished during his opening remarks, even garnering a few obligatory chuckles from the crowd when he sardonically wisecracked that there is “a flat-earth caucus in Congress.” Yet while those in attendance were respectful, it was obvious from the tepid applause that the Kerrys garnered for even red meat rhetoric that the audience wasn’t particularly enthused by the issues addressed...
...with examples of the progress Latinos have made in the past decade, citing figures from singer Gloria Estefan to Red Sox hitter David Ortiz as people who represent a “picture of increasing influence in this nation.” Yomaris Nunez, a member of the Latino Caucus at the Kennedy School, applauded the event. “It’s the one and only time each year that Latino issues are so widely discussed at Harvard,” Nunez said. Political Chair of Harvard RAZA Andrea R. Flores ’10 said that Cisneros?...
...United States. Della Volpe warned, however, that it was “awfully early” to assume a candidate’s likelihood of winning. Of those polled by the IOP, 42 percent said they would “definitely” vote in a primary or caucus, 61 percent said they would “definitely” vote in the general election, and three-quarters said they were registered to vote. In terms of foreign policy issues, nearly a quarter of the polled youth prioritized stabilizing Iraq, 17 percent cited genocide in Darfur, and 4 percent said...
Ruti Landé, president of the Israel Caucus at the Kennedy School, said that she appreciated Safieh’s respect for opposing views...