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...addition to chairing the City Council meetings, the mayor serves as chair and as a seventh vote on the School Committee...
McGovern says that the City Council needs to give greater consideration to the School Committee when selecting the mayor...
During her time at Harvard, she liked to play golf and was an Undergraduate Council representative. But Owada was never just another American Harvard student and was always aware of her Japanese identity, according to Nina S. Donnelly ’85, who lived in the same entryway of Lowell House as Owada...
...Washington, D.C. City Council made bold steps toward institutionalizing gay marriage in October, steps that we encouraged Congress not to override. A similar endeavor was undertaken in Maine with the vote on “Question One” but yielded less success because voters opposed gay marriage. However, the debate itself highlighted a problem in the very understanding of civil unions: Marriage itself is a religious institution that is inappropriately included in public law, and thus all marriages should instead be legally defined as secular “civil unions.” Despite the disappointment in Maine...
Power, who graduated from the Law School in 1999, is the special assistant to the President and the senior director for multilateral affairs on the National Security Council, and the founder of Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy...