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...candidates for positions within the department and prepare them for confirmation process. Prior to his appointment, White conducted defense-policy research as a board member of the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and chaired the school’s Middle East Initiative. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a former dean of the Kennedy School and founder of the Middle East Initiative, expressed strong support for White’s appointment. “John White has terrific background for this task...and he is a man of impeccable judgement,” said...
...Patty M. Nolan ’80. Other members questioned whether the discussion should focus on the larger issues surrounding controlled choice. “Do our desegregation policies support our academic goals, or do our academic goals revolve around our desegregation policies?” said committee member Joseph G. Grassi. But Simmons said that academic excellence is intertwined with socioeconomic diversity. She added that a school’s achievement level is often obscured by its reputation. “I don’t know if it’s all about good schools versus bad schools...
Nevertheless, 54% of U.S. Catholic voters supported Obama, who is Protestant. That may give him the cover to move ahead with his pledges. An added twist to the Obama Administration will be its pro-choice Catholic Vice President, Joe Biden. Bishop Joseph Martino of Scranton, Pa., hometown of Biden, told his fellow bishops last week, "I cannot have a Vice President-elect coming to Scranton to say he's learned his values there when those values are utterly against the teachings of the Catholic Church." Another pro-choice Catholic, Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius, may be on the short list...
...just turned 18 before this election. I did not follow politics at all and held some racist views. I volunteered briefly for Obama, knowing he offered the change our country needs. I now feel proud to have been part of this exciting milestone. Lauren K. Cichon, ST. JOSEPH, MICH...
...Joseph Loconte, visiting professor at Pepperdine University and a former Heritage Foundation fellow, suggests that you find a church that is actively engaged with struggling local communities. That can be surprisingly hard to find here, where a number of affluent churches choose to remain somewhat isolated from their urban surroundings. Loconte thinks that the nondenominational Washington Community Fellowship on Capitol Hill has the right orientation. "It's a church whose politics is difficult to tell and whose engagement to the community is real," he says. Loconte also says you might look for a church that is involved with the STEP...