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Though rowing occupies a significant portion of every day and has come to rest at the forefront of her list of priorities, Lambert has certainly not abandoned her original plans...
Boston has been at the forefront of educational segregation battles in the past, and its commitment to busing during those contentious years moved the country forward. But recent reports from the Harvard Civil Rights Project have shown that schools nationally have become more segregated. In such a segregated environment, Boston now has the chance to move the country forward again, by remaking a system that will capitalize on the residential diversity of the city of Boston. Boston benefits from a rich ethnic composition. It is time to help the city’s schools benefit from that richness as well...
...fought to prevent children from smoking and expose the liars and crooks in the tobacco industry who made billions while their customers died of lung cancer. But, like so many feminists who see an aggressive phallic symbol in every missile, monument or oak tree, extremists have stepped to the forefront of this movement. These people no longer seek to inform the public but to conform it to their way of life and, with disturbing speed and success, have made smoking illegal from the laid-back lounges of SoCal to the dimly lit dives of Southie...
...fought to prevent children from smoking and expose the liars and crooks in the tobacco industry who made billions while their customers died of lung cancer. But, like so many feminists who see an aggressive phallic symbol in every missile, monument or oak tree, extremists have stepped to the forefront of this movement. These people no longer seek to inform the public but to conform it to their way of life and, with disturbing speed and success, have made smoking illegal from the laid-back lounges of SoCal to the dimly lit dives of Southie...
...does not deserve. Despite almost universal condemnation, the junta will be quick to point out that Harvard, one of the most prestigious institutions in the world, sees no problem with its corrupt policies. This situation brings with it some amount of irony, since in 1996, Harvard came to the forefront of the pro-democracy boycott of Burmese products, when it cancelled a million-dollar contract with PepsiCo, then operating in Burma. Harvard’s protest led not only to PepsiCo’s withdrawal from Burma, but the precedent it created also encouraged many major U.S.-owned corporations...