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...reunion class formed Harvard Alumni for Social Action (HASA) to try to make improving education for the world’s poorest students part of Harvard’s development approach. We lobbied Harvard to allow our class to set up an alternate gift, in Harvard’s honor, which would build the institutional capacity of a university in sub-Saharan Africa with which Harvard already has academic collaborations. In view of the devastating impact of AIDS on African academics and the dilapidated state of their institutions, we felt that a class donation there could make a significant...
...Cahow said. “There are no shifts off at National Camp. Every player is skilled, as well as fast and experienced. Personally, I think it is the greatest of tests for a defenseman. I know Cori will rise to the challenge and do a great honor to herself as well as Harvard hockey...
...would leave the official designation as Plympton St. “The compromise of not renaming but creating an honorific sign system is a good one,” said councillor Henrietta Davis. “It allows us to keep the past in the present and to honor people of later generations as well.” But councillor David P. Maher said the council needed to examine this proposal more closely with the Cambridge Historical Commission and the local postmaster. For much of the meeting, public speakers—who included several of Halberstam’s classmates?...
...asked my Grandma Shinseki what I should say before I came here. She told me, 'tell them you come from a good family...and tell them you're a good American soldier.'"- Shinseki at the 2006 opening of a gallery in his honor at the U.S. Army Museum in Hawaii...
...situation with its "unwillingness" to "continue funding the operations," according to the statement. Republic also said that it told Bank of America about possible WARN compliance issues in October 2008. For its part, Bank of America has simply said, "As a creditor of the company, we continue to honor all of our agreements with the company, and have provided the maximum amount of funding we can under the terms of our agreement." Bank of America was recently the recipient of $25 billion in federal bailout funds...