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Nicholas A. Christakis—a sociology professor at Harvard Medical School and in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—and his wife Erika L. Christakis ’86 will become Pforzheimer House’s new masters this fall, said Pfoho Resident Dean Lisa Boes, Monday night...
...Senator Lisa A. Gladden, a Baltimore Democrat who chairs the committee, also thinks this is the year it will happen. "You have the commission report, which confirms what we already knew," she says. "The death penalty is not a deterrent, it doesn't reduce crime, it's expensive, and it's unfair. And the governor has the ability to persuade some of the swing voters in my committee - and I only need one - to get the bill onto the floor. " If the bill is passed by the senate, it will then continue to the legislature's other chamber, the house...
...December 2008, Judge Keith Rollins’ arrest of Lisa (Miedah) Valentine at the Douglasville Municipal Court for wearing her hijab, a religious covering, sparked national debate over whether or not Muslim women and others should be allowed to wear their symbols of faith in the courtroom. As absurd as it is that this kind of debate even occurs in the United States—a country supposedly founded on the principle of religious freedom—the real issue at hand is not one of mere “tolerance.” Valentine and others’ right...
...only would the Bush EPA refuse to take action on its own to slow the growth in carbon emissions, it would actively prevent states - even ones with Republican governors - from taking steps on their own. Now, with Obama directing his EPA to reconsider the waiver - and new EPA head Lisa Jackson has said that she would "very, very aggressively" review the request - the door is open to California once again taking the lead on cleaner cars. "It's a tremendously important step because we are in an urgent race against the climate crisis," says Vickie Patton, a senior attorney...
...Vice-President Biden stood to his right, apparently unsure if he or Lisa Brown, the staff secretary, should pick up the documents as Obama finished. Biden handled a couple, and then decided he'd better not. "Why don't you take the last one," he told Brown, with a smile. A few moments later, Biden was caught by surprise when Obama asked him to swear in the senior staff. "Am I doing this again?" he asked, confused, having just sworn in the members of the cabinet in a private ceremony. (See Who's Who in Barack Obama's White House...