Word: seated
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...Memphis, the battle for the Ninth Congressional District seat has alienated the white candidate, State Senator Steve Cohen, from black constituents who believe the district would be better served by a black person because it is 60 percent black. The black candidate, however, is a high school dropout with no political experience...
...last cigarette back in the Square, while sitting outside of Boylston Hall and reading some books in the nice fall weather. Two hours later, when I walked into Dr. S’s office, I greeted the receptionist in Russian and she told me to take a seat by her desk. Her name was Rita, and she was going to explain some things to me. A minute later, another Russian patient walked in, a woman wearing a red and white tracksuit and a Dior hairclip. “If you have trouble afterwards, you call him and he will call...
Unless you’re bringing a fork and knife to the bathroom, there’s no reason to fear sharing a toilet with sixteen of your closest friends. “There’s nothing you can get off a toilet seat, unless you ate off of it,” Harvard University Health Services (UHS) Chief of Medicine Soheyla D. Gharib writes in an e-mail. “Most disease transmission occurs by mucus membrane to mucus membrane contact, coughing, food handling by people with infections such as hepatitis, sharing utensils, or sharing needles...
...full-fledged political activist. No longer was her show about pleasing her audience, instead it was about presenting a set of talking points to be made so that the Democrats can take back the House. Her audience had come to see her perform, but her performance took second seat to her political message. Although her display of righteous indignation was met with applause, the applause should really have been for her singing, not for her politics...
Democratic candidate for New York State Senate Brooke M. Ellison ’00, one of the many Harvard alums seeking political office this year, is no stranger to facing difficult battles. Though her most recent challenge is for a Long Island Senate seat against incumbent Rep. John Flanagan, she faced adversity when she became paralyzed from the neck down as a result of a 1990 car accident. The accident changed her life forever, but it did not stop her from earning degrees from Harvard College and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her inspirational story—portrayed...