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...Emily Perez, the highest-ranking black and Hispanic woman cadet ever to graduate from West Point, was killed by a roadside bomb near Baghdad on Sept. 12 US ARMY/AP
...Even at a school of overachievers, Perez's friends and teachers say that she stood out. She held the second-highest rank in her senior class, and, as Brigade Command Sergeant Major, was the highest-ranking minority woman in the history of West Point. She set school records as a sprinter on the track team, led the school's gospel choir, tutored a number of other students and even helped start a dance squad to cheer on the football and basketball teams. Professors wanted her to be in their classes, soldiers wanted her to lead their cadets, underclassmen wanted...
...economic stability or attempts to right the country's myriad social wrongs, those voters are no longer celebrating Lula. The optimism that marked his election has been replaced by unease, and the hope by resignation. Still, Lula is more popular than ever. His approval rating of 52% is the highest on record for a sitting president, and he is odds-on favorite to win a second four-year term when voters go to the polls on Oct. 1. Why? Because he kept his three-meals-a-day promise...
...Fifty-nine candidates are aiming for the eight marshal positions, and all but 16 of them will be voted off the island—or, the ballot—in this first of two elections, which will close at 11:55 p.m. on Friday. The 16 contenders with the highest vote totals will participate in a second election next week...
...Harvard’s single greatest sporting event, I was stunned. It’s traditionally Harvard’s lone day in the athletic sun, with Sportscenter coverage, a national broadcast, and enough of a crowd to give last year’s clash the fifth-highest single-game attendance in all of Division I-AA football, higher than 456 Division I-A games. But the 2006 edition will be subject to restrictions unheard of in previous years, even after what was often called an overly restrictive policy at Yale last year that merely banned drinking games and limited...