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Though administrators have yet to establish a dollar figure goal for the proposed campaign, they expect it to exceed the last capital drive, which raised $2.6 billion when it ended in 1999. A similar seven-year campaign launched this year would raise close to $4.4 billion, assuming a higher-education inflation rate of 3.5 percent...
Hollie Seeley and Christy Allen have been together for seven years, own a home in Denver and are raising two kids. So they were disappointed last fall when Colorado voters joined the bandwagon of states that ban same-sex marriage and civil unions. But the couple won a measure of vindication this spring when Governor Bill Ritter signed a bill making Colorado the 10th state to allow gay and lesbian partners to adopt children as couples instead of restricting parental rights to one partner. Now Seeley can legally adopt Allen's biological daughter Amelia, 2, and Allen can adopt Seeley...
...edged out NZL-92 by 1 sec. on July 3 to complete the Swiss defence of the Auld Mug, claimed four years ago off Auckland. "I have learned more about [racing in] the America's Cup over the last 10 days than I'd learned over the last seven years...
...national anthem started playing I was in an orgasmic pitch of inebriated patriotism. Everyone embracing and swaying to the music, we screamed, howled, shrieked the lyrics; a medley of monkeys that hardly knew the words, or even the tune really. A drunken girl from Arkansas (who had told me seven times she was applying for the Rhodes scholarship before falling unceremoniously to the floor) rushed up to us demanding to know what song this...
...totally adored him," says Lila Hicks, 32, a media producer, of the investment banker with whom she ended a seven-year romance not long ago, deciding life with him would be too limiting. "But I wasn't happy. I didn't think I could make him happy and retain my spirit, what makes me shine." Shawna Perry, an emergency-medicine doctor in Jacksonville, Fla., recently ended a 10-year relationship with a man whom she loves but feels is behind her in personal and professional growth. "His ups and downs were affecting our relationship and my security," she says...