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Convincing more than 20 passersby to call congressmen, the half-dozen volunteers represented the Students Against Stupak, a subsidiary of campus organization Students for Choice. They handed out free condoms and coupons to J.P. Licks as incentives to boost what rally organizers said was a national effort to flood representatives with calls to kill the amendment to the House Health Care bill...
Local residents joined in the effort to call congressmen, sometimes borrowing students’ cell phones...
...efforts won’t end after this [call-in],” Reis-Dennis said. “This is only one element of a much larger and continued effort to make sure that the Stupak and any other similarly-worded amendment doesn’t pass. Women deserve coverage for abortion...
...administrators do insist on placing the UC fee onto the termbill, however, the least they can do is make more of an effort to inform students that waiving it is in fact an option. The College makes a commendable effort through e-mail and letters to inform students that the Harvard University Student Health Plan Supplemental can be waived. Although the HUSHP Supplemental is optional, it still deserves to be part of the termbill because, unlike the UC fee, it is necessary. Before the College knows whether a student has adequate health insurance, it is reasonable to first charge students...
...Obama's advisers have taken to calling the latest effort a "troop surge," an ironic term for an Administration that came to power by rejecting President Bush's "surge" of troops into Iraq. But nothing about Afghanistan has gone as expected. In March, his advisers spoke of the new strategy as a break from the past. Obama had then spoken of a "way forward." His speech Tuesday night was titled "The Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan...