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...chocolate milk, the construction of a new swing set and the planning of the Adler family carnival. But I was at a steep disadvantage. There were only two black kids in my entire elementary school—me and my little brother—and so I had the task of convincing my white classmates that I should represent them. It took posters, buttons and blood—mostly from making the buttons—but I won. The next year I ran for student council president and faced the dreaded task of giving a speech before all the third...
...International Affairs and chaired the school’s Middle East Initiative. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a former dean of the Kennedy School and founder of the Middle East Initiative, expressed strong support for White’s appointment. “John White has terrific background for this task...and he is a man of impeccable judgement,” said Nye, himself a former official in the Clinton Administration Defense Department and Carter Administration State Department. Both Sewall and White join a growing pantheon of Obama advisors with Harvard connections. Among his other advisers are a number...
Last year, she announced the formation of a “Task Force for the Arts” that was charged with making recommendations about how to improve Harvard’s arts program. The committee’s final report is expected to be released this fall...
...kicks started out rough for the Crimson. After the Huskies began with a make, co-captain Nikki Rhodes, after not playing the entire game, came out to take the Harvard attempt.Despite her apparent foot injury, she drilled a shot to the left side, but Gordon was up to the task, corralling the ball with a brilliant diving save.“It was a great save, she put a good kick on it, the keeper got a bead on it,” Leone said. “It’s a contest, that?...
...passions unleashed eventually spilled out of Reims' convention center and into town. Heading back to the city center as speeches wound down Saturday evening, one feisty PS dowager took an entire municipal bus to task. She harangued puzzled passengers about "this Socialist circus where everyone is so busy attacking everyone else that we leave the right in peace," before herself having a go at "the morons who back Royal instead of someone capable of advancing a real leftist program for once!" "I like Royal, and I'm not a moron," resisted a small, snowy-headed man who had also attended...