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...Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 officially endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) yesterday evening at an event on Boston Common that drew thousands. Although Patrick has close ties with the Clinton family, the governor told that crowd that he believed his “good friend” Obama was the best choice for America. “I don’t care whether the next president has had experience in the White House,” Patrick said. “I care whether he understands life in your house...
...might have thought that Tagg Romney’s visit to Harvard yesterday was akin to a trip behind enemy lines. In the past year, former Gov. W. Mitt Romney, who received a joint degree from the Business and Law schools in 1975, has criticized his alma mater’s support of stem cell research and repeatedly chided the University’s decision a year ago to host former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, including in a radio ad released just last month. But at a campaign event held last night at Emerson Hall and attended by roughly...
...identification of commercial products - and, now, of house pets and people too. Human "tagging" was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2004 to facilitate retrieval of private medical records, but the procedure has had few takers. It's still purely voluntary and last week, California Gov. Schwarzenegger sought to keep it that way, signing a bill that makes it illegal for employers to force workers to have RFID devices implanted as a means for receiving paychecks or government benefits...
BOSTON—Bearing candles at the scene of a recent Roxbury shooting, the Harvard Black Students Association (BSA) called on Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 to take decisive action against urban violence in Boston. The event, which BSA President Sarah Lockridge-Steckel ’09 described as a cross between a vigil and a press conference, brought 25 Harvard undergraduates to a basketball court in Washington Park, Roxbury last night. Echoing an open letter she sent the governor last Friday, Lockridge-Steckel said Patrick has not done enough to fight crime in black communities...
...free OCS T-shirts, these number-crunchers dress up any outfit with tees bearing mathematical jokes (“Will you lie tangent to my curves?”) that no one outside the Science Center finds even remotely humorous. Government Coming straight from practice across the river, Gov concentrators have little time to shed their athletic gear before class. Never known for their variety, most of these Marxist scholars wear their signature DHA sweatpants for days at a time. Sporting a Harvard athletics t-shirt or team jersey, Gov students strive at all times to emulate their fashion god?...