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Columbia, planning an enormous and controversial expansion into West Manhantville, will launch a $4-billion campaign today, according to the Spectator. It'll be the largest current campaign in higher education. Yale, contemplating the addition of two residential colleges, will follow on Saturday with the public kick-off to a $3-billion campaign, the YDN reports...
...Rand, like, totally change your life too? Meet other anti-altruistic spirits at the Harvard Objectivist Club’s kick-off event, featuring a lecture entitled “The Fountainhead and the Spirit of Youth.” The illustrious B. John Bayer will speak...
...Senator's remarks on election night were "a point-of-no-return speech." Lieberman was doing a series of interviews, mostly with Connecticut reporters, and plans some campaign stops on Thursday with Democrats who supported him and will continue to do so. Organizers shied away from calling it a kick-off tour, instead saying it is a new phase of the campaign. "He's committed," Gerstein said. "He feels liberated and he feels very strongly it's the right thing to do." Gerstein said the Senator is prepared to have some tough conversations with senior Democrats, perhaps even former President...
...kick-off event for the Harvard College Democrats’ Massachusetts Politics Week, Mass. State Senator and Middlesex County district attorney candidate Jarrett T. Barrios ’90 discussed his platform before a student gathering in the Kirkland Senior Common Room last night. Barrios, who is the first openly gay Hispanic Mass. state senator, addressed issues ranging from violent crime prevention to the gubernatorial race to the Supreme Court’s recent Solomon Amendment decision. Barrios, who will face another Democrat, Gerry Leone, in the district attorney race, advocated reforms focusing not just on winning convictions...
...Gordon says that Reeves signaled his support at the incumbent’s campaign kick-off event last June. Still, according to Winters, such gestures—which fall within the election-season norm—don’t imply an all-out endorsement. For many incumbents, gaining a challenger’s secondary and tertiary votes in Cambridge’s idiosyncratic proportional-representation system can spell electoral success...