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...Yale, however, alums elect six of the Yale corporation’s 18 members...
...addition to new lineups and renewed motivations, Harvard also looked forward to several of its rowers returning from injury, such as Todd, sophomore Alex Binkley and junior captain-elect Nick Blannin. Blannin and Binkley returned mid-season and Todd rejoined the first boat just in time for EARC Sprints...
Huntington, as advisor on national security to president-elect Carter, worked to develop policy initiatives on global human rights, nuclear weapons, and world food shortages...
...politics was even more horrific than national politics. A man named James Michael Curley ran for mayor of Boston from a jail cell. Although none of us could vote, Radcliffe and Harvard students formed an organization called “Citizens for Hynes” and worked tirelessly to elect a relative unknown candidate, John B. Hynes, who won and after whom the present-day Hynes Convention Center is named. That exhilarating experience gave me a life-long love of politics and an extraordinary appreciation that miracles can occur if hard, hard work is a component...
...started a gunfight that left three dead and five injured. What was really remarkable was that all the shooters were women, members of the Cava and Graziano families that have spent 30 years battling for control of local extortion and drug trafficking rackets. ALGERIA Tainted Victory The campaign to elect Algeria's new lower house of parliament was marred at one extreme by a boycott and at the other by lethal violence. The National Liberation Front won an outright majority with 199 of 389 seats after four opposition parties took no part in the vote...