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...same day the Republican leadership of the Senate put out a report decrying the terrible possibility that gay people might actually one day have the right to marry the person they love. So alarmed were the Senators that some states might grant marriage rights to gays that they proposed amending the very Constitution of the United States to forbid gay marriage (or any legal gay relationship) anywhere, anytime, anyhow. The next day, in a press conference, President Bush came close to endorsing the move. If the high courts in Massachusetts or New Jersey decide that their state constitutions demand equality...
After returning from the trip, which was funded by the Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium, the students are preparing to present their project to the local community. As part of their project, they are required to conduct outreach, including school visits and speaking to an audience of hundreds at the Museum of Science in Boston...
Shouting across the cafeteria when his microphone failed, Summers also extolled local literacy efforts by citing a portion of Harvard’s grant designated to purchase books for nine local children’s organizations...
...think you have to look increasingly to non-profits and how non-profits affect community needs,” he says. Still, he adds, recent fundraising and grant efforts suggest that support for homeless aid in Cambridge has actually diminished recently...
Martin said that the project was made possible by a $100,000 grant from the Kenneth and Evelyn Lipper Foundation to preserve the documents. He said that while most librarians do not yet view the web as a suitable preservation medium, the digital repository offers a wider distribution and a longer time-frame. The project’s founders have been experimenting with the website for almost four years...