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...Obama campaign in direct donations, and two of Harvard’s most distinguished law professors—Laurence H. Tribe ’62 and Cass R. Sunstein ’75, Obama’s erstwhile colleague at the University of Chicago—emerged as staunch backers of his presidential campaign. —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached ajiang@fas.harvard.edu. —Check TheCrimson.com throughout the evening for updates...
...carried buttons for her in their pockets and traditional party liners wearing jeans and drinking beer. Many wore "I Voted for Change" stickers. In a corner, Eloisa Hidalgo dabbed tears as states began coming in for Obama. She and husband Manuel came to the U.S. in 1960 as staunch Republicans, but they were convinced by their children to vote Democratic. "They showed me how much he cared about the underprivileged and middle-class," she says. Nearby, Marlise Radix, an Irish immigrant who, with her family, became a citizen to vote for Obama, took photos of chanting voters while children threw...
...taken back by lenders. In many areas in and around the tri-county area of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach, the value of property has plummeted so much that in some instances, banks are willing to take less than one-third of a property's value just to staunch the flow of money being spent on taxes and condo fees for unoccupied units. For example, Zalewski the grave dancer is looking at purchasing a 1,800-sq.-ft condo with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the waterfront in a place just north of Miami. That unit sold...
...Princeton; it’s a midweek game—it’s hard sometimes to get up for these,” Fucito said of the Crimson’s slow opening.Luckily, the Friars were not doing much on offense either, failing to make headway against the staunch Harvard defense. The teams combined for only seven shots in the first 36 minutes of play.Providence managed to jump ahead at 36:04 when a Crimson defender was called for a foul in the home team’s box. Friar Ryan Maduro converted the penalty kick low right, tallying...
During the nearly 18 years that Nadine Strossen served as president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the organization has been a staunch advocate in some of America's most polarizing legal battles, including fights over Internet free speech, abortion and the separation between church and state. The ACLU's membership nearly doubled during her tenure, which ended when she stepped down earlier this year. Strossen spoke to TIME about her toughest sparring partners, the tension between national security and civil liberties and why the upcoming election is even more important than people may realize. Your father...