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...Center for Public Interest Careers received a $1 million gift from David A. Ackert and Charlotte C. Ackert ’76 earlier this month as part of a University-wide push toward fostering increased student interest in the public sector...
...Zagorsky ’12 presented the “Freshman Brain Break Act.” Zagorsky tracked the times freshmen attended brain break and presented the data to the council. The act recommends that the Freshman Dean’s Office and the Annenberg Dining Hall manager push back brain break 30 minutes so that it starts and begins at 9:15 p.m. The act passed...
...extreme by the right. Although it’s difficult to realize a world with stateless globetrotters and no borders—such a romantic place will probably never exist—it is in both the moral and economic interest of individuals in developed and developing countries to push for much higher rates of immigration between states. The movement for human mobility has received ardent support from Harvard Kennedy School professor Lant Pritchett, who co-taught Economics 1400, “The Contents of Globalization,” with University professor Lawrence Summers last spring. Professor Pritchett...
...freestyle relay with a time of 1:24.49. His overall performance of four wins in four events seemed to be close to flawless. Even so, Diekema is the first to admit that there are a number of improvements that he will need to make in the coming weeks to push himself even faster. “I definitely need to work on the amount of power that I am generating from the underwater kick. I also need to be more aggressive on the 200-yard backstroke,” Diekema said. Another fantastic effort came from sophomore diver Zac Ranta...
...Keeping Gates as the Defense Secretary would allow him to continue his push to focus the military's efforts on insurgencies of the type it's facing in Iraq and Afghanistan, rather than on the hypothetical conventional wars for which it would prefer to plan - and for which it continues to order up costly weapons. (But continuity would also keep Pentagon spending, already at World War II levels, climbing into the stratosphere on autopilot...