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...Bears bested the Crimson in the next six events, but Harvard stayed strong and fought back in the 100-yard freestyle. Tan won the event for his team with a 46.49 finish, while Heyburn took second...
...That such a message would resonate here was poignant, given that no one had fought harder and longer than Kennedy for universal health care, something that the terminally ill liberal lion had referred to before his death in August as "the cause of my life." And it was all the more ironic considering that Massachusetts has come closer than any other state to assuring coverage to all of its citizens, thanks to a 2006 law that was championed by a Republican governor, Mitt Romney, who was celebrating onstage with Brown on election night...
...housing, for which limits on yearly rent increases are chucked in favor or whatever the market will bear. The prospectus offered by the lead investors, Tishman Speyer and Larry Fink's asset-management fund BlackRock, imagined evicting 50% of rent-regulated tenants in just a few years. But tenants fought back and won in a court decision that also undercut plans for using city tax abatements to further sweeten returns on apartments pushed into luxury decontrol. The upshot, according to a recent Deutsche Bank analysis, is that the property, purchased in late 2006 for $5.4 billion, "would fetch less than...
...pleased to see that revolutionary South African parliamentarian Helen Suzman was remembered in Farewells. Her incredible message of tolerance and equality resonated with white South Africans like myself who fought against apartheid. I am grateful that what started out as a lone voice in Parliament helped inspire a future that South Africans of every color can be proud...
Even more important, as the spiritual leader of Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia's biggest Muslim organization, Wahid fought against the fanatics who he said "pervert Islam into a dogma of intolerance, hatred and bloodshed." He could quote the Koran by heart as he defended the right of all people to follow their conscience in matters of religion, and he constantly spoke up for persecuted minorities, even at the risk of his own popularity. He said he wanted his tomb to read here lies a humanist. That he was. He was beloved by millions, Muslims and non-Muslims alike...