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...recently saw Freedom Writers and was amazed by how small and feminine you looked in comparison to your appearance in Million Dollar Baby. How did you get rid of all that muscle? Gerardo V. Perez, MEXICO CITY...
...have provided insight into the problem, David described several trips to Brazil where he helped to distribute over a million free condoms. David said when he visited Carnival in Brazil in 1996 to distribute 200,000 condoms people treated them “as if [we] were distributing ten dollar bills.” Maxwell said that condom distribution had been key in limiting the spread of the disease. “Harvard has really made a difference in the lives of real people,” David said. Martin, a History and Science concentrator, said that he decided...
What were your ambitions for the Continent? At the beginning of the 1970s, I was in the Cabinet of French Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas and I watched the dollar wavering, the end of the Bretton Woods system and the first oil crisis. Faced with all that, I saw Europe as helpless, disabled and divided. I said to myself that, if this continues, it will undoubtedly mean the decline of Europe. The first measures I proposed as President of the European Commission permitted us to unite and react together against great shocks from outside, and to become more competitive...
...Katrina and Rita destroyed their tiny house, but within days, Kramer, pastor of the Free Church of the Annunciation, was wading through the filthy floodwaters to help others. Before rebuilding his own home, Kramer helped rebuild homes and find shelter for many others. His congregation took out a million-dollar mortgage to turn the church and several surrounding properties into what they call Resurrection House, which includes a dormitory for volunteers who do construction work or reach out to the needy in the adjoining Broadmoor neighborhood...
...goal is to get people to the airport as quickly and cheaply as possible,” said Tom D. Hadfield ’08, who sponsored the original UC Rides legislation. The first 200 people to be paired via the UC rides system will receive five-dollar gift certificates redeemable at the Harvard Square eatery b.good, Hadfield said. The UC voted two weeks ago to allocate $1,000 to have the new service designed by a Seattle firm co-founded by former Campus Life Fellow Zachary A Corker ’04. Last week, however, Mather House UC Representative...