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...Lofgren remains humble and excited to keep growing. For her, the experience, in more ways than one, proved she has not seen and done everything.“The Australians won either the single or double in Belgium and immediately did a five-minute long tribal dance on the podium,” Lofgren recalled. “But I was just psyched to see people excited about crew—the whole experience was just unbelievable.”And in coming back to Radcliffe, her experience has increased her own skill on the water and confidence...
...series of debates geared toward bringing together students to broach controversial political topics, according to CPS member Daren F. Stanaway ’07. Drawing nearly 200 undergraduates to Harvard Hall last night, the debate featured animated speeches and rebuttal, peppered with questions from the audience. First to the podium, Eva Z. Lam ’10 articulated individual rights and privacy arguments in support of gay marriage, on behalf of the BGLTSA and the Dems. “Love should be the basis for marriage,” Lam said, noting that over 600,000 same-sex couples...
...back-office Republican political machine was able to take Evangelicals for granted--indeed, often viewed them with undisguised contempt--and still get their votes. G.O.P. operatives trusted that Christian conservatives would see the President more as their Pastor in Chief than anything else. Bush had long used the podium as a pulpit, telling voters that above all he was an evangelical Christian who had been saved from his drinking by Jesus and rebuilt his life around his faith. That inspirational story was carried throughout the country by a network of prominent evangelical pastors who had been quietly working since...
Obama's personal appeal is made manifest when he steps down from the podium and is swarmed by well-wishers of all ages and hues, although the difference in reaction between whites and blacks is subtly striking. The African Americans tend to be fairly reserved--quiet pride, knowing nods and be-careful-now looks. The white people, by contrast, are out of control. A nurse named Greta, just off a 12-hour shift, tentatively reaches out to touch the Senator's sleeve. "Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I just touched a future President! I can't believe...
...residents live in abject poverty, where thousands die every month of disease and malnutrition, where the children are forced to walk miles and miles every night to escape abduction by the armies.” After Boston’s presentation, keynote speaker Omara-Otunni took the podium and began his address by summarizing the history of conflict on the African continent, spanning from the European “Scramble for Africa” to the conflicts of today. This history illustrates that the conflict in Uganda is “an exception in terms of magnitude and duration...