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Massachusetts governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 announced last night that his proposed 2008 fiscal budget will provide the option of free human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations for girls aged 9 to 18, as part of a $72 million increase in state public health funding. The vaccine, known as Gardasil, helps to prevent the spread of the HPV virus, which infects about 6.2 million people in the U.S. each year. The virus is transmitted through genital contact and can lead to cervical cancer and genital warts, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Although the proposed vaccination...
Obama’s campaign for the U.S. Senate in Illinois was not unlike the impressive victory of Deval L. Patrick ‘78 in the recent gubernatorial election in Massachusetts. Like Obama, Patrick’s win was cemented by his great appeal across economic, racial, ethnic, and ideological lines, thereby dramatically demonstrating that a black politician can indeed generate widespread support. It solidified the contention that a politician’s message, not his or her race, is of primary importance...
Born poor in Chicago, where he shared a bedroom with his mother and sister, Deval Patrick became a prominent civil rights lawyer and was sworn in last month as Governor of Massachusetts, his first elected office. A few weeks into the job, Patrick, 50, talked to TIME's Perry Bacon Jr. about the pitfalls of a "color-blind" America, the likelihood of his state's universal health-care coverage being adopted nationwide and the politics of baseball...
...labels of having a woman or minority candidate, and look at experience and policies. Like in the case of John McCain, who has more experience.” The Obama-EffectObama’s run could have an effect similar to a recent campaign by another Harvard graduate: Deval L. Patrick ’78, who, in the fall of 2006, became the first Democrat in 16 years and the first African-American elected as governor of Massachusetts. “He attracted a lot more college students on campus,” Helgen says...
...yesterday, calls from concerned citizens began flooding law enforcement offices and several more packages were found, officials said. The packages were found in locations ranging from a comic book store on Harvard Street to the New England Medical Center. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, along with Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 and Police Commissioner Edward Davis, held a press conference at the Unified Command Center in Boston, where the mayor urged citizens to “treat suspicious devices with care.” Davis said that those responsible for placing the “devices?...