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...they would support a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to an education. “With regards to education, we are not citizens of this country,” he said. “There is no federal right to education.” Moses was the keynote speaker at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Public Policy and Leadership Conference, which brings college students to the school to encourage careers in public service. As a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, Moses led voter registration drives in the deep south. In 1982, he founded...
...people in a way that they understand,” the passionate professor says. “You learn how to be patient. You learn how to win.” Although he may know how to win, the professor has only been to Vegas as a tourist and speaker. Nesson isn’t opposed, however, to swindling poor, unsuspecting law school students out of a few bucks. Indeed, Nesson says he plays with students “whenever they invite me to a good game.” GPSTS, Nesson’s brainchild, sponsors team poker matches...
...Women and Public Policy Program, said she has hosted Johnson-Sirleaf in her home during recent visits. Hunt said that a stream of Harvard professors conferred with the President. “She was holding court in our room,” Hunt said. Last year’s speaker, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter and former Crimson editor Nicholas D. Kristof ’82, further praised the choice. “She’s a terrific choice because nobody has faced a tougher challenge in administering a country, and so far, she?...
...expect much different from the next President than what Palestinians had gotten from Bill Clinton or George W. Bush-a belated fling at trying to "solve" the Middle East. "Why do they always wait till their last year in office?" he asked, seeming too weary for fury. The next speaker, from Indonesia, wasn't very angry either. He hoped the next President would emphasize soft power rather than military force. The final speaker, a charismatic religious leader from Egypt, didn't want to talk about the next President at all. He wanted to talk about the problems of Islamic youth...
...seats in the 272-seat parliament and the PML-N 66, a combined total of 153. The ruling PML-Q party, badly tainted by its association with the widely unpopular President, has seen support plummet and has won just 38. Most of Musharraf's cabinet, including his party president, speaker of the house and several other close allies, appear to have lost their reelection bids. Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, head of the PML-Q, conceded defeat. "We accept the results with an open heart" and "will sit on opposition benches" in the new parliament, he told the Associated Press...