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...those afternoons the now-anachronistic Yale Bowl took on a tragic quality, the crisp evening air a harbinger of cold winter—a winter that Yale victories over Harvard somehow seemed to defer...
...courts to uphold those rights when a legislature fails to. While we are unequivocally glad that the New Jersey Court unanimously agreed on the equality of rights, we cannot help but lament its refusal to make same-sex marriage equal in both name and content. Its decision to defer to the legislature on the question of nomenclature threatens to undermine the minority whom it is the judiciary’s obligation to protect. This decision is especially unfortunate as there have already been indications from the New Jersey Senate and Assembly that the legislature will settle for terming this union...
...spending his time molding the minds of youth with Teach for America. And Lesser, his successor, is currently tackling a slew of law school applications that will hopefully secure his choice of career path. “Ideally, I’d like to get into a law school, defer for a year, and possibly work on the presidential campaign in 2008,” Lesser says...
...president and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences seeks to find a new dean.The search won’t be concluded for several months. Interim President Derek C. Bok, who has already said that he will not select the next Faculty dean himself, has chosen as well to defer this decision to the as-yet-unnamed 28th University president.“Joe Martin has served the Harvard Medical School and the University with integrity, imagination, and great distinction,” Bok said in a statement yesterday.And Martin will continue to serve the school after he steps down from...
...York Times. In the past year, it’s been in articles in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and in half a dozen national magazines. And the corps advertises that many investment banks and consulting firms, including Bain, McKinsey, and Morgan Stanley, allow students to defer their jobs instead of turning the dollar down...