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...other X factor: Fred Thompson, the onetime darling of Southern conservatives, with an endorsement from National Right to Life, who has mounted an aggressive bus tour to save his foundering campaign. If he gets traction, he could erode Huckabee's support among the pro-life base of the party...
What do you think would happen if those social issues started to become more of a factor? Do you think it would change the debate? Would it get uglier or less ugly? I don't know, but I could draw you a scenario where Rudy Giuliani also has traction among that other spectrum in the party. There is a pro-choice element within the Republican party. There is a New York kind...
...really good to know there were a lot of teachers in the room,” said Anna van Someren, Media Producer at MIT’s New Media Literacies project. “I like to make sure we’re actually creating stuff that can get traction in the classroom...
...University still has no permanent professor in Asian American studies, and the Asian American Association (AAA) is starting yet another campaign to bring the field to Harvard. Despite years of flourishing at other universities, Asian American studies is still struggling to gain traction in Cambridge. The former chair of Harvard’s history department says that a general slowdown in social science and humanities growth in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is partly to blame, and that advocates of Asian American studies have yet to make a compelling argument for why it should be emphasized. But others...
...interest in local foods is tremendous,” Wilson said. “People are understanding that local produce is more in touch with you, and more healthful.”NOT A ‘TOP PRIORITY’While the locavore trend is gaining traction on campus, students at Harvard still appear to be less active in these efforts compared to their peers at some other universities.The Yale Sustainable Food Project, for example, runs an organic farm partially staffed by student interns that provides produce for some student events and a New Haven restaurant.At Middlebury College...