Word: championed
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...profits from the Inconvenient Truth movie and book to the alliance. He can afford to: he's a senior adviser at Google and sits on the board of directors at Apple. He's also a co-founder of Current TV, the cable network that was an early champion of user-generated content, and chairman of Generation Investment Management, a sustainable investment fund with assets approaching $1 billion. "I'm working harder than I ever have in my life," he says. "The other day a friend said, 'Why don't you just take a break, Al, and run for President...
...League champion Crimson will travel to Hofstra on Friday for the team’s third appearance in the NCAA tournament. Harvard will compete in the Hempstead Regional...
...play Hofstra in the opening round of the NCAA Division I Softball Championship, meeting the Hempstead Regional hosts Friday afternoon at 2:30 p.m., the NCAA announced yesterday. Also heading to Hempstead, N.Y. are Baylor, the tournament’s eighth overall seed, and Albany, the America East conference champion. Those four teams comprise one of the 64-team tournament’s 16 regionals. All teams play in a double-elimination format, with the winners and losers of the Harvard-Hofstra and Baylor-Albany games playing each other Saturday. The winners of each regional advance to the Super Regionals...
...Choi is probably Korea's best-known gamer, having clinched the gold medal at last year's World Cyber Games in Italy. The tall, slender champion of the computer began training when he was 16, and hopes eventually to retire a wealthy man. "I want to be rich," he says simply, and that may not be idle talk: Gamers at Choi's level of skill can earn several hundred thousand dollars a year off their keyboard and mouse - and the adulation of the nation's twenty- and thirty somethings, especially young women. Here, gaming isn't regarded as a geeky...
...straighten out the situation in your church." Catholics in Latin America continue to fight for social justice, and disagreements persist about just how and if welfare policy and religious piety should cohabitate. But after the specter of Marxism faded and John Paul proved to be a great champion of the poor, new alliances have formed. Liberation theologians still say and write things that are at odds with the Vatican hierarchy, but liberation theology as such is no longer at the center of the debate, although the issues it raised remain so - today, the Church is conducting a more broadly defined...