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...Obama team picked Garver to run the NASA transition, in part because of her deep pedigree and long history at the space agency, which saw her climb to the rank of associate administrator. But Garver started as a PAO - NASA-speak for a public affairs officer - and never got involved in the nuts and bolts of building rockets. She is best known by most people as the person who in 2002 competed with boy-band singer Lance Bass for the chance to fly to the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket. Neither of them ever left the ground...
...said that the President-elect chose not to speak about America’s prescient racial issues because of the political risks that they carry. “He would have immediately seen his political star heading in a different direction...
...crux of Faust’s speech was the argument that Harvard has already paid—and continues to pay—its social debts in kind, so to speak; that the work the University does in educating young people and contributing to the world’s research constitutes an unquantifiable sum far beyond what we might provide with a tax from the endowment. “If the endowment were smaller, we would have to do less,” she noted, and then connected this “less” to a string of unassailable...
...www.studentstogether.com—but it does note that Flores enjoys a “steady diet of love.” On a more serious note, the Web sites both discuss financial concerns that will be facing the UC in the coming year. Schwarts and Biggers speak soberly of the impact of the economic crisis on campus life: “It will be the job of the next UC President and Vice President to ensure that, even in the face of budget cuts, commitment to student life remains untouched.” Similarly, Flores and McLeod note that...
...Link notes that the document takes its title and inspiration from Charter 77, which was issued in January 1977 by Czech and Slovak intellectuals calling for human rights in Czechoslovakia and abroad. Like its historical predecessor, Charter O8 recalls moments throughout Chinese history when intellectuals felt an obligation to speak out against shortcomings of the state, such as the 100 Days Reform of 1898, when scholars pressed the crumbling Qing dynasty to reform...