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...Drop by drop you make a river,” a group of female undergrads is making a difference $30 by $30. The Circle of Women, a nonprofit organization founded by Harvard students, has started an initiative to get 30 women under 30 to donate $30 in 30 days??and to get each woman to recruit another 30 students to the cause. The money will go to the construction of a school for women in Afghanistan, where the female literacy rate is just 12 percent. “Our mission is two pronged,” says Circle...
...politicians’ sharp statements used to catch people’s attention. But she did commend National Public Radio (NPR) for varying the length of their programming depending on the content. She praised the New York NPR affiliate’s “30 Issues in 30 Days?? program, which highlighted the opposing sides of a different issue\very day for a month. Kennedy School student Maura C. Sullivan said she was happy to have Edwards visiting the school. “Elizabeth Edwards is an inspiring figure in American politics,” said Sullivan...
...Today, he looks back on these days as the “good old days?? when Baghdad was relatively safe. Since then, he said, things have changed and the increase in violence has affected the ability of journalists to travel freely within the country to report...
...icon had said nearly the exact same thing about Jesse Jackson’s doomed 1988 run for the White House, back when her language couldn’t be chalked up to her bygone era or senility. This seems to cast a shadow on some of the past days?? saber-rattling, too—for example, Ferraro said yesterday, “I really think they’re attacking me because I’m white. How’s that?” In spite of all evidence to the contrary, she seems convinced that...
...clips of awards past. I knew it was going to be a tedious affair when Jack Nicholson introduced a montage of every single Best Picture winner—wholly unnecessary and a reminder of how dumb some of those picks were. (“Around the World in 80 Days??? Really?) At least some of the clips of acceptance speeches from decades ago provided a glimpse into what the Academy Awards were like in the bygone days, before Nicholson was given his perma-spot in the front row. It’s surprising to see the ceremony then...