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Reeves took that lesson to heart. Even while her singing career flourished, she maintained a steady presence in Detroit, making her home in a downtown high-rise apartment with her son Eric, attending the True Rock Baptist Church every Sunday she was in the city and becoming a visible town booster who frequently popped up at school career days...
...local newspaper revealed that several properties she owns around Detroit had code violations. Reeves says she has resolved the problems. "Sometimes people like you; sometimes they are ready to throw things at you," she says. "I was used to people cheering for me everywhere I go. My son Eric said, 'Mom, toughen up. It comes with the territory. Stop whining.' So I took his advice." She has not decided yet whether she will run again when her term is up in 2010. But if she doesn't, she already has something to fall back on. Since the election...
...course, uniformed military leaders have been suggesting more troops were needed ever since the war began. But they've been saying it privately-in an abdication of military responsibility-for fear that they would suffer the same fate as that of General Eric Shinseki, who told a congressional committee that "several hundred thousand" troops would be needed in Iraq and was, in effect, fired by Rumsfeld. "We had a responsibility to speak up," said a general who served in Iraq. "You can say what you will about Paul Wolfowitz, but when he was DepSec, he was always on the phone...
...less inflammatory way.” Leaders of Harvard’s political community agreed, criticizing the means used by the BU Republicans. “If they want to have a serious debate about affirmative action, that’s one thing,” said Eric P. Lesser ’07, former president of the Harvard College Democrats. “But if they want to resort to these gimmicks, then that’s despicable.” “The statement they’re making is worthwhile,” said Mark...
...just don’t want to make it out that this is a huge disaster. It’s not,” he said. “We have a few students who are essentially still waiting on their insurance claim checks.” But Eric P. Lesser ’07 of Kirkland said he has collected e-mailed statements from 22 students who are upset with the company’s service. He and his roommates, Paul B. Davis ’07-’08 and Ashwin Kaja ’07, said...