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...group that picked Faust. As photographers scrambled to keep pace with the column of Harvard officials trailing Faust down Quincy Street on their way to the news conference, church bells began to ring.On the short walk to Barker, Faust emphasized her roots as a professor and an academic, telling reporters that she’d spent the morning preparing questions for her Civil War class because she knew the afternoon would be too hectic.“You can tell [my students] I’ll be prepared,” she said.As members of the press hurried into...
...have "poured into this task," he says that president has to "create an environment which can enable all of the people" who live here and work here "to achieve up to the fullest of their talents." Ends by saying "Drew, you have a wonderful job. Don't let anybody tell you this is an onerous job, that this is a difficult job" and joking he suggested that she might serve for as many as 30 or 40 years...
...That's the journey we're on today. But let me tell you how I came to be here. As most of you know, I am not a native of this great state. I moved to Illinois over two decades ago. I was a young man then, just a year out of college; I knew no one in Chicago, was without money or family connections. But a group of churches had offered me a job as a community organizer for $13,000 a year. And I accepted the job, sight unseen, motivated then by a single, simple, powerful idea - that...
...here, in Springfield, where I saw all that is America converge - farmers and teachers, businessmen and laborers, all of them with a story to tell, all of them seeking a seat at the table, all of them clamoring to be heard. I made lasting friendships here - friends that I see in the audience today...
...victories this week we know we have to work really hard to get to a higher level.” Many question marks remain, and with the toughest competition of the season in the coming weeks, the squad will need stellar performances and healthy fencers. Only time will tell whether they can continue to rise to the occasion...