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...years into his term, Booker spoke to Law School students in the historic Ames Courtroom about the importance of taking risks for one’s community...
...hosted the president as a guest in her home. She noted that the war in Liberia “makes the U.S. Civil War look like a picnic.” Robert I. Rotberg, director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution at HKS, also spoke to the Iron Lady’s fearless leadership. “She’s got the toughest job of any president of any African country,” he said. And Ellwood said Johnson-Sirleaf has taken on “one of the greatest challenges in the world?...
...spot.The event featured no prepared remarks from Summers—who said he would leave that to others later in the week. Instead, the former president, before being bestowed with an honorary membership in the Class of 2008 by First Class Marshall Alexander J. Tennant ’08, spoke briefly on the advantages of leaving University housing behind and the tasks ahead of the graduates.Summers, who recently returned from a week in Israel with his wife and step-daughter, recalled attending the 18th birthday party of a friend’s child during the trip and hearing the teenagers...
...results were simple. In almost every group, members ended up with more extreme positions after they spoke with one another. Discussion made civil unions more popular among liberals; discussion made civil unions less popular among conservatives. Liberals favored an international treaty to control global warming before discussion; they favored it more strongly after discussion. Conservatives were neutral on that treaty before discussion; they strongly opposed it after discussion. Mildly favorable toward affirmative action before discussion, liberals became strongly favorable toward affirmative action after discussion. Firmly negative about affirmative action before discussion, conservatives became even more negative about affirmative action after...
...According to two sources close to the College administration, who spoke on the condition of anonymity last week, Dean of FAS Michael D. Smith has been hard at work on plans to shuffle much of the College administration out of University Hall and into loftier perches—aloof from the undergraduates they ostensibly serve—in the Holyoke Centre...