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...Overseers, has elected former Vassar President Frances D. Fergusson and Boston lawyer William F. Lee ’72 to serve as president and vice chair of its executive committee, respectively, the University announced yesterday. Fergusson and Lee, who will both begin their one-year terms following Commencement, will succeed computer science professor Susan L. Graham ’64 and psychiatrist and novelist Paul A. Buttenwieser ’60. Elected as overseers in 2002, Fergusson and Lee are entering their final year as members of the board and have a long history of working together. Most recently...
...that the Democrats are now in control. It's difficult to be in charge of Congress, especially when your grass roots are pushing you to do something about the war, and it's hard to do anything without seeming to undercut the troops or denying Petraeus a chance to succeed. Mitch McConnell's performance as Senate Republican leader has also--for the first time in a long while--given Republicans a congressional leader worth rooting for as he outmaneuvers the Democrats in their efforts to put Congress on record against Bush's Iraq policy...
...introducing tremendous new public resources, Harvard’s expanded campus will bring an estimated 14,000 to 15,000 jobs to the area by the time it is completed and bolster the local economy. It is in the local community’s interest for Harvard to succeed in creating a vibrant campus and community in Allston...
...Mizushima, for one, won't be building any bridges between Japan and China. He says he has already raised half of the $2.5 million he needs for his film, which he vows will prove "the massacre did not happen." Few outside observers expect him to succeed. As Guttentag puts it: "There's an extraordinary amount of evidence that shows that it did. There's forensic evidence, there's photographic evidence, there's film evidence, there's eyewitness testimony. I mean, what else do you need...
...Whether he'll succeed in integrating them into his own electorate is a mystery, as are the intentions of voters in the ethnically mixed suburbs (polling along ethnic lines still being taboo in France). But Le Pen's bulldog growl is not falling entirely on deaf ears in the suburbs. "We've been waiting for someone to say, 'If you're French above all, you're welcome and have a place among us,'" says Habiba, who contrasts Le Pen's appeal with that of mainstream politicians who "keep telling us we're French, but continue shutting us out as eternal...