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Seidel, who has a masters degree in urban planning from the Graduate School of Design, added that he also hopes to push environmental concerns on the council, and that this is one area where Cambridge should set an example...
...Some conservative commentators, seeking to turn the "spirited exchange" (McCain's team's characterization) into a political metaphor, said that McCain's response to Cornyn symbolizes the candidate's eagerness to push through flawed legislation (that he also wants to take all the credit for). Or, more fundamentally, it showed his willingness to do what is politically expedient, regardless of who gets knocked aside along...
...headline “She’s an Antismoking Crusader”—was chosen from thousands of applicants. Glamour selected Pasricha for her global movement, which began in 2001 when she organized a group of peers in her hometown of Hockessin, Del. to push for the Delaware Clean Indoor Air Act, which bans smoking in the state’s public establishments. The act was passed in March 2003. Pasricha said that her biggest challenge came when speaking at the legislative hearings weighing the bill. “One of the legislators asked...
...President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, an active backer of the plan, said that after the technology is first implemented, its initial success could push all the House masters to accept...
Falwell did push for greater restrictions on abortion and looser tax treatment for parochial schools. But again and again he overreached. He railed against feminists and homosexuals, denouncing in the most divisive terms all those who he believed would undermine traditional family values--including, most notoriously, the purple, purse-carrying Teletubby Tinky Winky, whom he accused of corrupting children. When Falwell suggested that God had withdrawn his loving protection from America on 9/11 because of the offenses of gays and feminists and the A.C.L.U., he was not saying anything new--but many in the audience were now listening...