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While the rise of online retailers and rising real-estate prices have forced many booksellers out of the Square, the Harvard Book Store has maintained a strong presence in this ever-changing neighborhood, thanks in no small part to the Kramer family...
...That period saw the rise of Kenyatta, who entered the Law School in 1980. An unusual student and tireless activist by most accounts, Kenyatta took the helm of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at the end of his second year and injected a social and political bent into the 15-year-old organization...
...anticipated...that students would use this relaxation of the rules to go into competition with HSA or that the College would allow that,” said Lewis, who relaxed the rules in response to the rise of the Internet. “That was certainly not the intent to have individual students going head to head with HSA, which I always considered to be an important institution, both educationally and in terms of the money it put in students’ pockets...
...Obama claimed that allowing Trinity to get back to tending to its family was a key part of why he was resigning his membership - as much as what his association with the church was doing to his presidential aspirations. After all, Obama's stunning rise to the brink of being the Democratic presidential nominee has cast an unusually harsh light on his place of worship. Trinity's roughly 8,500 members makes it among the largest congregations in Chicago - and the largest in the United Church of Christ, a predominately white protestant denomination. When Wright assumed leadership of Trinity...
Economic theory and political will, however, don't always go together. The dramatic rise in gasoline prices has caused widespread public anger, as every member of Congress who went home for the Memorial Day break is no doubt aware. Support for lowering energy prices is something that has both broad and deep support in America; it will drive voters to the ballot box. And although Warner-Lieberman, or any future cap-and-trade bill, is unlikely to hike the price of gasoline, it will surely be used as a convenient political scapegoat...