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...that changed the nation, building coalitions on issues from discrimination to campaign finance to health to education. I have covered a few of his failures, notably his attempts to enact national health insurance. But there were more successes, like the 1965 immigration bill that ended national origins quotas, the creation of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (now SCHIP) in 1997, and battles to raise the minimum wage. (“If you’re not for raising the minimum wage,” he told a nervous colleague, John Kerry...
...these students is Katherine A. Beck ’08, a force to be reckoned with. She has not only had a voice in the creation and implementation of everything we do but has also led more than a few initiatives. She has done the work of at least two employees, all the while being active in Mission Hill and The Seneca, completing her College education, and winning the Harvard College Women’s Leadership Award. She is tireless and selfless and amazing. We will miss her more than words can express...
...considering dance until this year, Ho will now tour the nation with a professional company created by one of its foremost modern choreographers. Her shift is emblematic of a campus whose already-vibrant arts community is gaining prominence and support, and is finding new ways to integrate reflection and creation...
...Less than a month into her tenure as University President, Drew G. Faust crystallized these changes by announcing the creation of a new task force on the arts, on which Ho has served. Though Faust’s commitment to the arts has largely been expressed through rhetoric and small but symbolic actions, she has generated palpable enthusiasm as the arts community begins to rethink and reshape its role at Harvard...
...Though Harvard has historically privileged critical reflection on the arts over practical creation of the arts, it has nonetheless managed to develop a strong extracurricular-based community that has contributed to the growth of artists such as John A. Lithgow...