Word: shieding
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Obama's Radical Friends Essayist Michael Kinsley argues that it is "absurd" to make an issue of Barack Obama's relationship with unrepentant Weather Underground bombers Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn [June 9]. If this association exposes Obama as a radical or "a man with terrible judgment," Kinsley writes, then...
In the past, the University has shied away from giving honorary doctorates to individuals currently holding a political office, although there have been notable exceptions, including Vice President Albert Gore ’69 in 1994 and then-Senator John F. Kennedy in 1956. This tradition seems wise, as it...
In response, Sadr loyalists have already taken to the streets in Baghdad, where U.S. troops will have to deal with the backlash. U.S. officials have so far shied away from blaming Sadr for the recent rise of violence (including an Easter attack on the Green Zone), mostly because Sadr's...
The U.S. Senate has approved a $2.1 billion increase to its proposed budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—by far Harvard’s largest source of federal dollars. Thursday’s vote came two days after University President Drew G. Faust testified before...
University President Drew G. Faust spoke in favor of increasing federal funding for biomedical research before a U.S. Senate committee yesterday.Faust’s testimony capped a Harvard-led effort to reverse a recent real-dollar decline in research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).Working as...