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During her first year in office at Radcliffe, Bunting-Smith began to overturn this prevailing attitude about women’s education, implementing policies that increasingly integrated Radcliffe with Harvard and encouraged female students to be leaders outside the home...
...father; his mother was its first governor. The current congressman is his brother and the vice-governor his nephew. Incumbents have a natural advantage over challengers, since they have had years - in the Chiongbian family's case, decades - to dispense favors and appoint loyalists. "Popularity is not enough to overturn favors which have been granted over several years or several terms," warns de Vera...
...Business School administration has final say over Class Day activities and could overturn the Student Association’s decision. The Oath Team plans to launch a marketing campaign in the hopes of rallying enough support among the student body to earn the oath ceremony a spot at Class Day, said Lawrence M. Estrada, a second year MBA student and a member of the Team...
JOHN ROBERTS, U.S. Chief Justice, questioning whether Supreme Court Justices should have to attend the yearly address, after having had to sit "expressionless" while some members of Congress cheered Obama's Jan. 27 criticism of the court's decision to overturn a ban on corporate political spending...
...original version of this article has been updated to reflect the fact that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has submitted an appeal requesting to overturn the judge?s decision to grant the Romeikes asylum...