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...world's largest military baby shower, there was no doubting the sincerity of Fayetteville's convictions. The North Carolina city that is home to both Fort Bragg and the Pope Air Force Base threw a party on Nov. 15 for a thousand new and expectant military moms--a baby boomlet prompted by the return since October 2007 of some 22,000 members of the 82nd Airborne from active duty in Iraq. The event was held in Fayetteville's Crown Exposition Center, complete with a buffet, a cupcake table, plenty of bottled water and raffle prizes ranging from a 2009 Chevy...
Harvard coach Tim Murphy recognized Luft’s potential early, thanks in large part to fellow Thousand Oaks, Calif. native Corey Mazza...
...approximately $3,000, according to Verma. Compared to dance marathons held at other colleges throughout the nation, the HCDM’s fundraising efforts fell short. The Children’s Miracle Network Dance Marathon Program has aided different colleges throughout the nation to raise anywhere from a few thousand dollars to over $100,000. Penn State—the first school to partner with the network in 1973—raised over $5.2 million in 2007. At Harvard, the concept behind the marathon was spearheaded by Nneka F. Ufere ’08, Emily J. Nelson...
...presentation about Vietnamese poetry and music by Nguyen Ngoc Bich, a translator and lecturer specializing in Vietnamese literature. Many students said this was their first time being exposed to Vietnamese poetry and music. “It was just amazing to be able to hear poetry from a thousand years ago,” said Jeremy N. Tran ’09, last year’s president of the Vietnamese Association, “Vietnamese poetry isn’t boring. It’s quite sexual and talks a lot about desire and being drunk...
...loggers and people desperate for firewood. Day-to-day survival is hard enough. Rising fuel and food prices led to riots earlier this year. Then four hurricanes pummeled the country in the space of four weeks; the resulting floods displaced approximately one million people, killed more than a thousand and left thousands more homeless. (See pictures of Haiti's food riots here...