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...School, Davis won the Best Oralist Award in the prestigious Ames Moot Court Competition, and after graduation, he went on to work at Alabama’s Southern Poverty Law Center and as a federal prosecutor. Davis took his congressional seat after narrowly defeating Earl F. Hillard, a black democrat, in the 2002 primary. He has been in congress for the past seven years. —Staff Writer Laura G. Mirviss can be reached at lmirviss@fas.harvard.edu...
...religion might be the bitter psychological baggage of America's left-behind. Over the summer, state Republicans made hay of Obama's "field office" in Nixa, pop. roughly 17,000, which was but a table and chairs set up outside a vacant storefront. "Paid?" quipped former state GOP chairman Hillard Selck. "This could just be some guy who came out of retirement, sitting at a filling station handing out cards." But that once laughable table in Nixa is now a full-fledged office. (View a gallery of campaign gaffes here...
...contrast, the Republican race is subdued. A former state party chairman, Hillard Selck, said he and other party leaders didn't even know, as of last week, who was handling front-runner John McCain's Missouri campaign. That might change with the recent endorsement of McCain by former Senator John Danforth...
Anthropologists are trying to figure out why. Homo sapiens produces the most slowly maturing young of all mammals. Among foraging humans, children need 19 years--and consume 13 million calories--before producing more food for their community than they take from it, according to research by anthropologist Hillard Kaplan. You'd think fathers would be hardwired to provide for such needy offspring, and yet there is more variation in fathering styles across human cultures than among all other species of primates combined. Many of our primate kin are far better fathers than we are (investigators at the California primate center...
...years, when I own Camp Hillard, I’ll be confident I made the right decision...