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...current need to “transform ideals into substantive reality” as he accepted the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award at the Institute of Politics yesterday evening. Caroline B. Kennedy ’80 presented awards to Booker and Giovanna Negretti, the co-founder and executive director of ¿Oiste?, which encourages Massachusetts Latinos to enter public service. Booker took to the stage with a modest smile and jokes about Stephen Colbert’s recent lampooning of him, but gradually adopted a more dramatic and impassioned tone reminiscent of former President Kennedy?...
...government launched an investigation into loan fraud charges brough against Wong. A year later, Gome announced that the investigation was completed, and its founder was never charged. His recent troubles make him the latest high-profile tycoon to run afoul of authorities. The ranks of recent years' rich lists read like a police blotter. In 2003 Yang Bin, an agribusiness and real estate tycoon once named the mainland's second-richest man, was convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to 18 years in prison. Gu Chujun, once head of a leading appliance company, was ranked China's 20th richest businessperson...
...need not study medicine or law or become female ministers, or ever expect to become President of the United States; but be something more than mere dolls ... Cultivate your intellect and your heart, and prove to the world that 'all men and women are created equal.' " When Sidwell Friends founder Thomas Sidwell married teacher Frances Haldeman in 1887, he made her co-principal, and they shared the leadership of the school for the rest of their lives...
...Scully argues, the animal movement is broader than this caricature. Modern animal advocacy began as the cause of 19th century Christian reformers combating slavery and child abuse. Indeed, William Wilberforce, the famous abolitionist and co-founder of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is a hero in modern Christian conservative circles...
...school's experts ($80), including an atheist, a beekeeper and a man who escaped from a World War II detention camp. Recently, the school hosted DIY lessons on how to hang wallpaper in the style of Ernest Hemingway. Each offering, says Sophie Howarth, the school's founder, addresses Plato's question: "What is the right way to live...