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...with the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) to host a spring speaker event. I have seen women’s groups work together, such as: RUS with the Association of Black Harvard Women, Latinas Unidas, the Society of Arab Students, Asian-American communities and other individual female students, to foster discussion on “Race and Feminism.” In this way, women’s groups are in fact working together to support one another, and there is hope for strengthening the community of women at Harvard...
...Dutch giant Shell, with more in the pipeline, doesn't hurt either. For his part, Gaddafi is tired of isolation and sanctions, which have cost Libya tens of billions of dollars. Yes, he's a dictator, not a democrat of the sort Bush and Blair say they want to foster in the Middle East. But at least...
...fellow Republican Nick Smith of Michigan a bribe--in the form of a hefty contribution to his son's congressional campaign--to vote for the measure on Nov. 22. And the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began a probe into charges by Richard Foster, Medicare's top cost analyst, that the program's then administrator, Thomas Scully, threatened to fire him last June if he told Congress the prescription-drug bill would cost more than $500 billion, well above the $400 billion the Administration had publicly acknowledged. The higher number wasn't released until...
Beyond these general female-focused organizations, other groups have catered to more specific niches within the Harvard population. The Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW), Latinas Unidas and the Hillel’s Women’s Group all aim to foster a similar community specifically for women who identify with a particular ethnic/religious group. A scarcity of roles for women in theater prompted a few undergraduates to form the Athena Theater Company, the Coalition Against Sexual Violence was founded in 1998 to increase Harvard’s existing education and resources regarding sexual assault, and Girlspot was created...
Students say these presentations foster a sense of solidarity among the classmates and allow them to enlist the help of others when solving problems...