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Becky H. Martinez ’11, the president of Latinas Unidas, said that one goal of the conference was to help Latina women at Harvard and in the local community focus on their strengths rather than the difficulties they face...
With 11 minutes to go and the local rivals knotted at 49, the backcourt star faked a shot and weaved his way into the lane. His two-handed jam in traffic broke the tie and was followed on the other end with a block by senior Pat Magnarelli. The oft-injured forward, playing in his first game in nearly one and a half years, had a solid night on both ends of the floor, leading his team with six rebounds...
...conservative pursuit of voter fraud has a long and sordid history. The Bush Justice Department sent its U.S. attorneys out hunting for it, but they turned up nothing—a few dozen cases of mistakes and misunderstandings, a few small-time conspiracies in local elections, but no evidence of corruption in federal or state elections. This, of course, wasn’t what the Bush administration wanted to hear, so they fired U.S. attorneys who they thought weren’t being aggressive enough...
...What we've said is simply that the President would like the opportunity to speak to a broad audience of the Chinese people," said Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser. As it turns out, the town hall wasn't broadcast live on television but was rather shown on local Shanghai TV and streamed online on two major national internet portals, though the quality was choppy and made it hard to hear. (Read "Obama in Southeast Asia: Mending Fences in a Key Region...
...same time, White House officials had been preparing alternate means of broadcasting the town hall online. The event, which took place Monday at 12:45 p.m. local time, was shown live over Whitehouse.gov, and Obama took a number of questions from an online Chinese audience. But it was the President's own remarks which will have made for the main headlines. Obama defending the freedom of the internet by stating that "I think that the more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable." He also...