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Several prominent figures who delivered past Gordon lectures at Harvard have been—or have gone on to be—heads of state. The list includes President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia this year; then-President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique in 2004; President Festus G. Mogae of Botswana in 2000; former British Prime Minister John Major in 1999; and former President George H.W. Bush in 1998. And it appears that Pataki aspires to the title of president as well. While he has not officially announced a bid for his party’s nomination in 2008, his political...
...five. SHERMAN HOYT TROPHY Eighteen schools traveled to Brown University to compete in one of the biggest co-ed regattas of the weekend, the Sherman Hoyt Trophy in Providence, R.I. A total of 22 races were on the docket, and in A-division, senior skipper Clay Johnson sailed along with senior crew Kristen Lynch and junior crew Elyse Dolbec to a tenth-place Crimson finish. St. Mary’s won that division, too, but in B, junior skipper Kyle Kovacs, sophomore crew Jon Garrity and Dolbec earned fourth place. Overall, Boston College’s 136 points were just...
...study of religion ever conducted, with more than 1,700 people who each answered nearly 400 questions on American religion and spirituality."We wanted to do something that most surveys don't and that is to probe questions that are typically not asked on surveys," said researcher Dr. Byron Johnson, professor of sociology and co-director of the ISR, when the results were released last month. ISR researchers also organized their data according to brand-new categories, dividing American religion into four ways that we can view God - Authoritarian, Benevolent, Critical and Distant...
...Nancy Pelosi and Democratic donors like Barbra Streisand. With $3.3 million in the bank and an $850,000 television ad buy courtesy of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Lampson is stressing his early struggles in a poor, hardworking Texas family and his work for education, his support of the Johnson Space Center (it became part of the district after DeLay's redrawing of Congressional lines) and child protection issues during his eight prior years in Congress...
...latest candidate? Television. Author Gregg Easterbrook stirred the blogosphere last week with an article on Slate provocatively titled "TV Really Might Cause Autism." The piece cited an as yet unpublished study from Cornell University, although not from its medical school. Economist Michael Waldman, of Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, got to thinking that TV watching--already vaguely associated with ADHD--just might be the culprit that tips vulnerable toddlers into autism. That there was no medical research to support the idea didn't faze him. Nor was he deterred by the fact that there are no reliable large...