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...recipient, a woman whose cause of disfigurement is being kept secret along with her name. Once she'd been chosen, the surgical team had to await a compatible donor - someone whose tissue matched the recipient's, but also, for esthetic and psychological reasons, who was of the same race, gender and approximate age. The call to alert Siemionow that a donor had finally been found came in the middle of the night earlier this month, and her team was hastily gathered. The operation began at 5:30 that afternoon. As the recipient was being prepped, the transplant tissue was harvested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind a Face Transplant Breakthrough | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

When Obama faced the Rev. Jeremiah Wright scandal, instead of denying or attacking, he led a serious discussion about race--something that has never worked after the first semester of sophomore year. Mitt Romney made a similarly brave gambit when posing with some black children on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and opening the dialogue by saying, "Who let the dogs out? Who! Who!" The nation's fastest-rising politician, Joe the Plumber, got his start with the gutsy decision to ask for a tax break that he didn't remotely qualify for. Even crazier, opponents of gay marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of Living Stupidly | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

Andrea R. Flores ’10 and Kia J. McLeod ’10 won the Undergraduate Council election last night by just 157 votes out of over 3,000 cast in a race that featured improved turnout, rule violations, and comedy...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Flores-McLeod Triumph In Close Race | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

...race took an unusual turn late last night when Flores’ campaign was suspended for the rest of the election—which ended at noon today—for forging a signature on its staff list. But the Flores campaign responded that the student whose signature was forged, Black Men’s Forum President Sangu J. Delle ’10, had given electronic permission for someone else to sign for him since he was out of the country, so the signature was made in “good faith...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Flores-McLeod Triumph In Close Race | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

...race took a turn late last night when Flores' campaign was suspended for the rest of the election—which ended at noon today—for forging a signature on its staff list. But the Flores campaign responded in a heated statement that the student whose signature was forged, Black Men’s Forum President Sangu J. Delle ’10, had given electronic permission for someone else to sign for him since he was out of the country and that this represented a "good faith" effort...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Flores-McLeod Win U.C. Election | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

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