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...Each of the programs is important within its community. There’s an element of social change in meeting these kids’ needs and helping the members of these communities empower themselves by being allies to the residents,” said former Mission Hill SUP Director David V. Jenkins ’03. “That is how you build a community’s power.” A sense of continued presence in the communities was the theme of the night. In her opening remarks, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds praised PBHA...
...Nearly lost his 1992 Senate race after feminists mobilized against him for grilling Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination hearings (he called her testimony "flat-out perjury"). In 2004, his remark that a Supreme Court nominee who opposed abortion rights wouldn't pass Senate confirmation almost cost him the chance to run the hearings...
...staying a Republican because I think I have an important role, a more important role, to play there." - Dismissing speculation in March 2009 that he was about to switch parties, adding, "I'm afraid we're becoming a one-party system" (The Hill...
...book on the South's shifting racial politics, "a lot of Democrats are scared for Artur Davis to be the nominee," partly because Republicans will likely try to pounce on his connection to President Obama. Davis will find his toughest proving grounds in the state's largely white northern hill country. "They know his candidacy doesn't make sense in the context of Alabama's history," Browder says...
...drink. Waking up late one morning after a night in the bars of Singapore's Emerald Hill neighborhood, Troy Toon groggily admits he's still partying "though I try to have fewer drinks." A 29-year-old web designer, Toon says the downturn hasn?t driven away his customers, even if they are more frequently asking for discounts. "Some of them have been asking rates to go down by about a fifth," he says. So far Toon has been compensating for this lost revenue by being abstemious with taxis and other incidental expenses. "We're not facing too much trouble...