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...disenfranchisement efforts against blacks during the Civil Rights era. (Comedian Bill Cosby was welcomed too until he excoriated the crowd for the city?s high murder rate, drug-dealing ways and teenage pregnancies.) Nagin supporters like Candy Williams, who lost her New Orleans home in Katrina, vowed to get far-flung family members back to vote for her man. "I have family that?s all the way in Dallas, and they have no way of knowing where to go vote," she said. "More than likely, I?m going to go pick them up. I?m very determined...
First, the center should centralize resources geared towards serving women. This will include information about women’s groups (including contact information and literature), health-related resources, and career services. It will also include centralizing and pooling the currently disparate and far-flung resources for women’s groups, creating more efficient and robust groups...
...Malcolm graduated from Harvard Law School, she went forth into the real world to be an attorney. Oh, how the years go by and things change. Now, Malcolm is a freelance journalist and the author of “Silent Lies,” a novel that follows the far-flung exploits of a protagonist burdened by dark secrets. She recently spoke over the telephone with The Crimson...
...Washington Post "My superstars at Davos this year are the university presidents. Larry Summers at Harvard, Rick Levin at Yale, Lee Bollinger at Columbia and a half-dozen more are transforming their universities into global institutions -- seeking the best students from around the world and sending them to far-flung places to learn the skills that will secure them places among the global elite. 'We want the brilliant mathematician whose mother is a chambermaid in Romania,' says Summers...
Goaded by curiosity and a sense that he could help the U.S. defend itself against a new breed of enemy, Carpenter gave chase to the attackers. He hopped just as stealthily from computer to computer across the globe, chasing the spies as they hijacked a web of far-flung computers. Eventually he followed the trail to its apparent end, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. He found that the attacks emanated from just three Chinese routers that acted as the first connection point from a local network to the Internet...