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...Mayer, executive director of Harvard University Dining Services, moved from Middlebury College to Cambridge to direct one of the country’s oldest (and largest) self-operating collegiate dining services. He sits down with FM to dish about his plans to make Harvard sustainable, forty thousand pounds of local squash, and traveling to Tokyo to talk about college cafeterias. Dying to get a taste of Mayer’s next moves? Read on, ’cause your order’s up. 1. Fifteen Minutes (FM): If you were stranded on a desert island for one month...
...Tufts University’s Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. H-VOTE, an Institute of Politics program that helped students register in their home states and obtain absentee ballots, reported a four-fold increase in the number of voters it registered compared to 2004. Two thousand and seventeen students registered or pledged to vote this year through H-VOTE, up from about 500 during the last presidential race. Alice J. Gissinger ’11, a student leader of H-VOTE, said she considered registration and voting an indication of people’s plans...
...myself for the life struggle upon which I am soon to enter? What training of the faculties have I submitted to, to give them that vigor which is needed to grapple successfully [with] the difficulties of the most trying profession known among men? Alas, to all these and a thousand similar questions which might be asked, I have but one answer. Nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing...
...celebration with friends, McCain remains focused on the prize, with a fierce intensity that continues to rouse his audiences. "I'm an American and I choose to fight," he calls out at every campaign stop, drawing cheers from the crowds, which tend to number no more than several thousand...
People know Ohio as the ultimate swing state, a place where Republicans and Democrats are evenly matched and an entire presidential election can hang by a few thousand votes. But look beneath the surface and you'll see this binary, blue-and-red world dissolve into an uncommonly complicated state that insiders divide into "The Five Ohios." Each of these five regions has its own distinct culture, its own brand of politics. Barack Obama and John McCain know this, and both candidates use different messages and tactics in each area to press their advantages and defend weak flanks...