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...either complete two years of higher education or serve in the military. Both provisions were also part of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, a law sponsored by Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin which failed last October. The legislation is expected to be introduced in similar form, and the bill’s proponents say they are confident of victory. “We’ve got McCain and we’ve got a few others,” Reid said. “I don’t expect much of a fight...
...guiding students in their selection of the right program.” The CEA also wants to ensure that “the intellectual program that the student has in mind is related to his time at Harvard,” he said. While these grants appear to be similar to the College’s prestigious year-long Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship—which aims to help graduating seniors “discover and clarify the purpose of [one’s] life” through cultural immersion and field studies—the David Rockefeller grants...
...engagement of American youth in politics, according to Levine. “I think college students were more enthusiastic for this election,” said Colin J. Motley ’10, president of the Harvard Republican Club. “Barack Obama energized the youth voters similar to Ronald Reagan back in 1980.” He added that he thought the high turnout was a good thing, though he would have preferred a different outcome. Joanna I. Naples-Mitchell ’10, the former political director of the Harvard College Democrats, said that in addition...
...state could examine the damage called it the worst he's ever seen from a single incident. Added Ed Tichenor, director of Palm Beach County Reef Rescue, who reported the damage to state agencies: "As far as I've been diving here, I haven't heard of a similar incident of this magnitude." The other damaged reef is located off a state park just south of Port Everglades. There, sponges have been sliced, and soft and hard corals cut and turned over. (See pictures of imperiled coral reefs here...
...Similar statehouse fights are pending in South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, says gay adoption expert and advocate Jennifer Chrisler, and more are likely to follow, as conservatives try to duplicate their successful strategy to ban gay marriage state by state. "The other side was very strategic about their efforts to ban gay marriage," Chrisler, executive director of the Family Equality Center in Boston, told TIME. "They were able to bring that issue to the attention of the American people well before Americans were ready to have that conversation. They are likely to use a similar strategy when it comes...