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When Jackie M. Robinson ’09 was looking for college scholarships his senior year of high school, one offering institution stood out as a natural choice: the Jackie Robinson Foundation. “I definitely applied hoping I would get in because of my name, but it didn’t work out that way,” says Robinson. After he was initially rejected, Robinson finally got the scholarship. The foundation’s Web site calls it both “a vehicle to perpetuate the memory of Jackie Robinson?...
...Communion's leaders last February: that the generally liberal U.S. church accept the Communion input in creating conservative bishops to pastor some of its more disaffected members; that it cease to make any more gay bishops, as it did in 2003 with the Right Rev. V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire; and that it stop blessing same-sex union ceremonies...
...Charles Mingus play when you were in the White House. Are you still a jazz fan? -Gary Robinson, Moreno Valley, Calif. That was the best jazz concert the White House has ever seen. Whenever we visit New Orleans or St. Louis or Chicago, we go out of our way to attend a jazz concert or nightclub...
...first, as Harvard went on a 5-0 run to take a 9-4 lead. But again, Northeastern slowly chipped away at the lead, drawing the score even at 27. The Crimson took a 29-28 lead on a McKinley kill, but the Huskies’ Jillian Robinson answered to make it even at 29. A point later, a service ace from Northeastern’s Britney Brown secured the 31-29 Huskies victory. Northeastern stormed out of the gate in the third frame, taking a 7-0 lead behind Kira Batura’s serve. Harvard chipped away...
...promotion has not altered Hermann's strength of character, Morton notes, describing her at Galliano's side in April after his closest collaborator, Stephen Robinson, died suddenly. "She was a rock," Morton says. "But that's Valerie. She is human as much as assertive, a good soul as much as a number cruncher...