Word: roberts
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...William J. Clinton Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It will be formally announced in New York City on Sept. 23 on the fringes of the U.N. General Assembly, and accompanied by a marketing blitz. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the head of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, are expected to participate in the launch, as well as the chief executives of the three companies that have made it technically possible: Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport/Galileo, who run the reservation and ticketing systems for most of the world's airlines. Barring any last-minute technical or legal hitches...
...with lowest number of votes is eliminated, and ballots are again redistributed. Cambridge is the only city in the country that uses this electoral system.“Marjorie, though she’s won five elections now, has never reached the [10 percent] quota,” said Robert Winters, editor of the Cambridge Civic Journal, an instructor at the Extension School, and a one-time council candidate.“She’s always relied upon having second and third—whatever—preferences from other candidates,” he said...
...Just as he would eventually follow them into politics, Kennedy followed his brothers John ’40 and Robert ’48 into Crimson football when he arrived at Harvard, successfully trying out for the freshman squad...
...clerks at the Court, while Harvard has nine. This year, due to errors in reporting of data, some law schools were assigned abnormally high rankings—an irregularity that saw the University of North Dakota School of Law placed above Harvard Law School for a short time. Robert J. Morse, director of data research at U.S. News & World Report, stated that law schools filled out questionnaires mailed to them in late 2008 or early 2009 and that some schools “gave the wrong percentages.” Morse stated that in the case of the University...
...Defense Initiative (SDI, a.k.a. Star Wars) 26 years ago, the notion of a global missile shield has become an obsession for many of his ideological acolytes. They tend to view any retreat as surrendering to the forces of evil, even though Obama's decision was blessed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates - who had originally recommended the European scheme in 2006 while serving as Defense Secretary to President George W. Bush. In justifying the move, Gates and others cite intelligence reports that Iran - ostensibly the key target of the European shield - is emphasizing shorter-range missiles that couldn't be shot...