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...Mark Warner will be this year’s recipient of the Harvard College Democrats’ annual “Leadership Award.” Warner, who as a possible candidate from a southern state is widely expected to appeal to moderate Republicans and independents, will receive the honor at the Dems’ gala in April. According to the president of the Harvard College Democrats, Eric P. Lesser ’07, the Dems chose to honor Warner because “he embodies what we hope to be the future of the Democratic Party...
...crisis, which began appearing in the fall of 2004, exposed the crimes committed in Darfur through personal accounts from Sudanese refugees who had been forced to flee their homes. Jim Lehrer, the host of The News Hour on Public Broadcasting Service and ten-time presidential debate moderator, was also honored yesterday with a career award for excellence in journalism. In his acceptance speech last night, Lehrer said that traditional journalism is in “a moment that in many ways is a moment of absolute panic.” Lehrer cited the rise of internet-based media like blogs...
...have all been charged with federal conspiracy to burn churches, were popular college kids with big dreams and real talents. Matthew Cloyd, 20, was a premed student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to which he transferred last year. An avid deer hunter and a high school math-honor-society student, Cloyd remained close to two friends he met during his freshman and sophomore years at Birmingham-Southern College, Russell DeBusk and Benjamin Moseley. The 19-year-old theater majors were a tight pair at the small liberal-arts school, which is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Known...
...Hawaii Club reached the finish line first. Alaska Klub President Corey M. Rennell ’07 hosted the event, now in its second year, armed with a megaphone in one hand and an air horn in the other. Four teams squared off at the MAC Quad for the honor of “top-dog,” outfitted in various themed clothes. The shirtless Sigma Alpha Epsilon Juggernauts sported yellow and purple body paint, the Hawaii Club brought the luau, the Mountaineering Club donned bright yellow t-shirts, and the Outing Club saluted Alaska by substituting the state?...
Every year since 1900, with only one exception (1918, when the influenza epidemic claimed more lives), heart disease has had the dubious honor of being the U.S.'s leading killer. Lowering cholesterol levels, specifically the low-density lipoproteins (LDL) that make meats and butter-laden desserts so irresistible to the palate but so hazardous to the heart, was the first step to slowing down the disease. But now physicians are shifting their attention to LDL's do-good partner, high-density lipoprotein (HDL), encouraged by early evidence suggesting it can not only clean out fatty deposits within blood-vessel walls...