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...Faust said that she hopes that the University’s upcoming capital campaign will include a “substantial emphasis on financial aid.” Faust added that she is also considering ways to improve graduate student financial aid and will make an announcement in the near future. —Laurence H.M. Holland contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...
...surprising success in Iowa—to the role of religion in the vote. As the forum wound down, IOP Director James A. Leach paid tribute to outgoing IOP Forum Director Bill H. White. Sitting alongside his wife and two young children, White was toasted by colleagues near and far. Some “FOB,” or Friends of Bill, as one speaker labelled them, phoned in and were broadcast over a loudspeaker. White will join Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78’s administration after campaigning in Iowa on behalf of Hillary...
Hope, Ark., a town of just over 10,000 people, is known for its prize-winning watermelon. This town near the Louisiana and Texas borders is also known to ardent political junkies as the birthplace of former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential aspirant Mike Huckabee also hails from Hope, and the similarities don’t end there. Both men were governor of Arkansas for more than 10 years, and Huckabee, as Clinton did during his first presidential bid, has seemed to make a last-minute surge during the primary season. Both men even play...
Even before two of its teenage congregants were shot near their car on Sunday, New Life Church in Colorado Springs had been dealing with a legacy of trauma. At the end of 2006, the megachurch had suffered through a sex scandal after its founder Ted Haggard admitted to a relationship with a male escort. Church membership plummeted from 14,000 to 10,000. Now, with a new pastor on board only since August, the church is once again in the national spotlight, this time as part of a shocking two-episode multiple murder. At a press conference today, the church...
...wave was just one of the ways the audience tried to work off its nervous energy. They danced, they chanted. As disco music played, those seated near the curtained hallway to the back and left of the stage gasped when an elegant black hand briefly parted the curtain. An older black woman in an Obama t-shirt, bright kerchief and big glasses had a view just inside the sanctum; she hopped to her feet and waved her hands like she had just seen Elvis. The hand outside the curtain waved and pointed to her with an ironic, hep-cat flick...