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That nucleus includes co-captain Heather Hussey, seniors Erin Kutner and Heather Gotha and junior Leslie Moroz. Kutner was a second team All-Ivy selection...
...recent op-ed, Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow Heather Love ’91 described the various disciplines as man-made artifacts, products of history rather than reason. But without ahistorical principles of what an education should contain, the only criteria are political, and the decision on ethnic studies becomes a referendum on the acceptability of various ethnic groups. Regarding a Latino studies center, John H. Coatsworth, director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, told the Boston Globe that “Anything that suggests we’re not welcoming or supportive of Latinos...
When a celebrity finds a cause, cynicism is the first reaction. There are exceptions, of course, like the work of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills on land mines. But often, we suspect that we're being conned--that film stars and musicians have calculated that supporting some benighted group is a way of redoubling our reverence for them. And we know that some causes--Tibet, HIV/AIDS--are frankly more fashionable than others. Offhand, I can't think of one celebrity who has dedicated time and money to reducing the number of deaths from diarrhea, a killer throughout the developing world...
...intelligent blue eyes who lives in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, is a hemophiliac. What prevents the mishaps of childhood from killing him is $2,000-a-week injections of a medication called Mononine. But no private insurer will cover Dalton, so his parents, Leonard Poe and Heather Dawes, held their income to $22,900--33% over the poverty line--to qualify for Medicaid...
...That worked until March 2001, when Dalton turned 7 and his Medicaid eligibility ran out. (For him to stay in the program, his parents would have had to earn no more than $15,492 a year.) Heather, a paralegal, tried to enroll him in the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a state-federal initiative that provides coverage to children of working families. But North Carolina had burned through all the money allocated to CHIP that year, so Dalton joined 23,000 other kids on a waiting list. By the time legislators found the $8 million needed to resume enrollment...