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Karen Thurman, Florida Democratic chair, vowing to stick with the decision to move up the state's primary despite DNC threats to strip Florida Democrats of their delegates as a result...
...Hawking has teamed up with his daughter, Lucy Hawking, to write George's Secret Key to the Universe, the first in a trilogy of novels directed at the fertile minds of children themselves. In an interview via e-mail, Stephen Hawking, who holds Sir Isaac Newton's former chair in mathematics at Cambridge University, explains: "The aim of the book is to encourage children's sense of wonder at the universe. We want them to look outward. Only then will they be able to make the right decisions to safeguard the future of the human race...
...realize that either a serious epidemic had flooded Harvard, or there was something else behind the 144 shirts emblazoned with the words “HIV Positive”. “The shirts originated in South Africa,” explained Tanuj D. Parikh ’09, chair of the South Asian Men’s Collective. “We wanted to bring them here because it addressed the stigma toward HIV victims, and after more than two decades, people are still afraid to talk about it.” Seven campus organizations, including the South Asian...
...after members of both faiths completed their prayer services. After dinner, Muslim students held another set of prayers and invited Jewish students to observe, Siddiqi said. Students of other faiths were also welcomed at the event. Neil C. Murthy ’08, a Catholic student and the chair of community service for the Interfaith Council, said he appreciated the meal both because many of his blockmates are Muslim and because of the good food. Benjamin K. Glaser ’09 joked that he too came to the event because he was “disappointed by the food...
...filed in person at the Electoral Commission by the 27th of September, and lawyer's groups had called for mass protests to block Musharraf's papers from being filed . "Musharraf's opponents made an announcement that they would put the Election Commission offices under siege," explains Senator Nisar Memon, Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Defense. For that reason, they were detained. "They were going to turn the Election Committee offices into a virtual prison, stopping people from going in, and stopping government workers from doing their job. That is against the law. That hurts other people's democratic...