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...encouraging students to register and vote absentee in their home states where their vote might make a critical difference in a swing state,” Kendall said. Two weeks ago, sophomores Rebecca C. Chase and Sasha Harris-Lovett put the party back in politics with a swing state bash. They advertised the fete with slogans like “party your way to the polls.” With a U.S. map hanging on the wall, the party favored its guests with free stamps for their absentee ballots and computer access to a voter information website...
...were very happy that we beat Brown and other collegiate crews, but we also realize that there were crews in front of us, and we need to work harder,” said senior two-seat Heather Schofield. “This gives us something to chase in the future...
...members of Congress since the country’s founding, only 215 have been women. Today, women hold only 14 percent of the seats of U.S. Congress while they account for 52 percent of the population. It wasn’t until 1948 that a woman, Margaret Chase Smith, became elected to the Senate in her own right. And it would take 54 more years before a woman, Nancy Pelosi, would earn the top leadership position in a national party in the House of Representatives...
...were a British stage director looking for foreign material to adapt, you'd likely avoid anything in Japanese, a language whose subtleties have tormented translators for centuries. And you definitely wouldn't choose Haruki Murakami, whose witty, noirish best sellers about contemporary Japan (Norwegian Wood, A Wild Sheep Chase) combine the mundane and the surreal with daunting complexity...
BANK ON IT When Bank One merged with J.P. Morgan Chase in July, Jamie Dimon, right, of Bank One, was guaranteed the CEO slot of the new company--when Chase's William Harrison retires...