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...Harvard Stadium stood as one of the few lasting symbols of the University’s since-lost relevance within the collegiate sports world. But a series of events beginning that year threatened what was possibly the longest-living possession of the Harvard athletic department...
...dean of the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study and soon to be the 28th University president—said, “I am not the woman president of Harvard. I am the president of Harvard.” A quarter-century ago, another historian and female dean stood ready to achieve a milestone. On the last day of November 1981, then-University President Derek C. Bok announced that Patricia A. Graham would serve as the next dean of the Graduate School of Education (GSE), making the historian of education Harvard’s first female dean...
Indeed, Graham said that she “definitely stood out” in her new position...
...support the immigration bill, opposition to its provision allowing citizenship has draw many attacks from conservatives within the party. Last week, President Bush dismissed opponents of the bill as "spreading fear," provoking sharp responses from typically reliable Administration allies such as Rush Limbaugh (who told his listeners the President stood to "lose some of you"). "I wish we could raise the level of dialogue on this issue," McCain told TIME...
...waiting hours for the Chief Justice to pass through Haripur, the halfway point on Chaudhry's route. "The government rents crowds for their rallies, but we are not getting money or food to be here," he said. "We come just to pay tribute to the Chief Justice, because he stood up against the army generals...