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Leaving their soil microbes and frozen mice ears behind for a day, a dozen Harvard scientists headed for Washington D.C. yesterday to lobby Congress on the behalf of biomedical researchers across the nation...
...Officials from Harvard and other universities say that the frustrations expressed by the Harvard professors are shared by researchers across the nation...
Many believe Paterson's collegial approach to governance could soothe a legislature rubbed raw by Spitzer's abrasiveness. His affability will be an asset in combative Albany. What's unclear is whether it will be enough to effectively lead a state whose government may be one the nation's most dysfunctional...
...Hofstra Law School graduate became the State Senate's minority leader in 2002, it marked the first time an African American assumed that position. As governor, Paterson will add to his groundbreaking record by becoming the state's first black chief executive, and just the fourth in the nation's history - as well as the first blind person to attain the office...
...complex enough, there is also the matter of dealing with the Pontiff's philosophical fascination with America. Glendon said the Pope is "intrigued" by the U.S. model for managing the church-state divide, which contrasts with the contemporary European tendency to avoid public professions of faith. "We are a nation that has traditionally valued the role of faith in sustaining the democratic experiment," she said. "Culture comes before politics... and religion is at the heart of culture." Though the Vatican was staunchly opposed to the war in Iraq, Glendon arrives largely after the fact, as both sides are focused...