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Gates said that the department is “working hard to hire several new professors” that will cement the department’s prominence in African American studies and propel it to becoming the nation’s top center for African studies as well...
Reagan's handlers would like to recreate the atmospherics of April 1981, when the President triumphantly bounced back from a bullet wound to address a whistling, cheering Congress. The outpouring of good will helped propel both significant spending reductions and a huge tax cut through Congress over that summer. Some have suggested that the Reaganauts might once again translate public sympathy for Reagan into a congressional goad. "If he returns by the fall, now having licked the Big C, he becomes an even more formidable political figure," says White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan. To be sure, Reagan's stock...
This time around, however, Harvard (9-9, 2-0 Ivy) was the sharper of the two teams, relying on clutch hitting and superior pitching to propel it to a pair of tight 3-1 victories at Soldiers Field Saturday. Motivated not only by the excitement of its Ivy opener, but also by the opportunity for revenge against Brown (4-9-1, 0-2), the Crimson rolled to its sixth and seventh consecutive victories...
...Harvard coach Katey Stone will lose her top four scorers and four-fifths of her top power play unit, with only seven returning forwards left to propel the offense...
Second, rather than pluck promising students from troubled communities to propel them up the social ladder, democratic schools build long-term partnerships with communities near and far to together address their respective needs. Such an approach engages schools in directly tackling community problems—from poverty and crime to pollution and war—rather than extricating a few from social problems, leaving the problem in place for those remaining to endure. In return, the school community gains ongoing, invaluable, hands-on education in addressing public problems...