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...joined the group. Palfrey said the next phase in the campaign would be to get 1,000 people to pledge to volunteer or donate money to Lessig’s campaign. Law professor Jonathan L. Zittrain, faculty co-director of the Berkman Center, also expressed support for his Stanford counterpart, saying that Lessig is passionate about politics. “[Lessig] has down the part that can be elusive to many candidates: a message,” Zittrain said. “His focus on what he calls corruption couldn’t be better timed, given public sentiment this...
...Salaam, Tanzania's commercial capital, on Monday, Bush praised efforts by his Tanzanian counterpart, Jataya Kikwete, to fight corruption: "You are a strong leader," he said. According to the U.S. embassy in Tanzania, Washington will contribute $662 million to the East African nation this year. The Millennium Challenge Corporation also granted Tanzania $698 million for water, energy and infrastructure projects. "I'll just put it bluntly," said Bush. "America doesn't want to spend money on people who steal the money." Kikwete replied: "Different people may have different views about you and your Administration and your legacy...
Similar to its Yale counterpart in terms of delegated state authority, HUPD is a private entity deputized by the Commonwealth...
...like a smoother T.C. Boyle, her Britishisms landing softer on the ear than the American slang Boyle bandies about. She has his wit, his lyrical vision, and his ability to slice keenly with language, to be precise and poignant. But her sentences haunt and linger longer than her American counterpart, particularly when she fearlessly confronts Day’s disillusion: “Alfred supposed bits of dream would always work out through him now—the way that tiny shrapnel splinters would sometimes break up through his skin, finally leave him.”With sentences such...
...reading selections of their work tonight at Sanders Theater as a part of the Celebrity Series of Boston.“It will be a bacchanal,” Rakoff says. “I’m going to set myself on fire.” His counterpart Vowell is the author of bestsellers such as “The Partly Cloudy Patriot” and “Assassination Vacation,” which takes a historical tour of the scenes of three presidential assassinations. She is now writing a book on the history of the founding...