Word: socials
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...social studies concentrator in Leverett, Lam studies urban education in the United States. She is writing her thesis on cultural competency: preparing educators to teach students from different ethnic backgrounds...
...Republican to the Senate in nearly four decades, animus over the proposed bill has helped Brown erase the double-digit lead Coakley enjoyed as recently as earlier this month. The state attorney general, Coakley, 56 - who would be Massachusetts' first female U.S. Senator - is known as a fierce prosecutor, social progressive and shrewd politician, but she has drawn criticism for running a lackluster campaign. (See Ted Kennedy's life in pictures...
...Merkel has said she won't make a decision on deploying any more German troops until after the international conference on Afghanistan to be held in London on Jan. 28. But with Horst Seehofer - leader of her Christian Democrats' sister party and coalition partner, the Bavarian Christian Social Union - already signaling his opposition to boosting German forces, it's clear that the decision won't be easy...
...Social entrepreneur Alan A. Khazei ’83, who co-founded the public service organization City Year and has actively sought student support, came in third with 13 percent of the vote. Stephen G. Pagliuca—a graduate of Harvard Business School and currently a co-owner of the Boston Celtics—finished last with roughly 12 percent...
...various strands of Uganda's anti-gay movement - social conservatism, religious fervor and elements of America's culture wars - came together at a meeting at the country's largest university last month. On the agenda was the country's controversial antihomosexuality bill, which, as currently proposed, would impose the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality" - that is, an HIV-positive man caught having sex with another...