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...between sightings, Co-captain and team founder Dan Cooper '95 spoke of the group's beginnings. Cooper is an avid birder who "can't remember not being interested in birds" and met another founder of the group, Will Hutcheson '97, at bird watching camp in 1988. Dan and Will's brother, Allen, spent their first two years at Harvard going on birding expeditions of their own, but decided to expand when Will started at Harvard this fall. They postered and began holding regular weekly meetings. The result: an as yet unofficial organization with 15 active members...
...question still remains: Why a team and not a club? Apparently, the group's title was the subject of much deliberation. Cooper and Hutcheson pointed out that they rejected several options. "Society was too wimpy--club was too social. We're all action and camraderie. We don't sit around -- we go out and we look for birds...
...While Cooper spends much of his academic time studying birds as well (he's a biology major focusing on issues of conservation and ecology), other HROT members have different reasons for joining the group on these excursions. Junior Jessie Cohen knows relatively little about birds but enjoys "the hiking aspect" of the group. Anne Guiney '95 speaks of the influence of her mother and brother, both avid birders, that led to her own interest. HROT is described by its leaders as "an eclectic group of people...
...While Cooper and the others feel that HROT is a relaxed, casual type of organization, they do have ideas for expansion. Team t-shirts, complete with numbers on the back, are in the works, as well as extended trips that involve traveling outside the greater Cambridge area...
There are some signs, however, that bipartisan moderates may come together around some variation of a House bill introduced by Jim Cooper, a Tennessee Democrat, and Fred Grandy, an Iowa Republican. Cooper describes his bill as "Clinton Lite": less costly, less mandatory, less bureaucratic. Clintonites reply that it also would not cover all of the 37 million people now uninsured. Nonetheless, staff members for Cooper and Senator John Breaux, a Louisiana Democrat, have begun negotiations with aides to Dole and Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island to see whether they can blend their efforts into a single, bipartisan, both...