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...themselves safe. HUPD advises that students avoid talking on cell phones and listening to music when they’re walking alone at night. Despite this precaution, the sight of a Harvard student trolling the Square’s nighttime streets with headphones tucked into their ears is not uncommon. Students also need to take greater responsibility for their room keys and the security of their dorm rooms. Rather than leaving windows open and spare keys “hidden” near their doors, students should lock up and stop thieves before they have the chance to steal...
...show a rise of anti-American sentiment in recent years, many Britons still love America, and the British political classes invest great importance in their country's "special relationship" with the U.S. Still, it's safe to say that the sharp sense of disappointment expressed by Cameron isn't uncommon. "The past eight years have been dominated by the troika of Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney, who have become increasingly unpopular in Europe," says Brooks Newmark, an American-born Conservative MP. He's an enthusiast for John McCain, who has cultivated close links with British Conservatives and addressed their conference...
...bipartisan nature of last night’s event and highlighted the need to work together across political and racial lines against poverty. “The call of the poor is potentially a contemporary common good that if seen correctly, could move us beyond our narrow interests into uncommon unity,” he said. At the same time, the meeting did not completely ignore the upcoming election. Motley also took the opportunity to discuss the club’s upcoming fall events designed to aid John McCain’s presidential campaign and to excite new members about...
...four new treatments to patients--Thalomid, Velcade, Revlimid and Doxil. That's about six years faster than the decade it usually takes for such drug development and rollout. Multiple myeloma is a rare cancer of the bone marrow that sickens about 20,000 Americans each year--precisely the uncommon form of the disease that often falls into the research cracks. The MMRF benefited from the aggressive work of founder Kathy Giusti, a multiple-myeloma survivor and former pharmaceutical executive. When she and her group first raised enough money to start funding research, she faced a feeding frenzy of research applicants...
...White House speechwriter under Clinton. "The hardest part about writing a speech like this is not the mechanics of it but what you want to say and how you're going to say it, the strategy of it," Cherny says. For a speech of this magnitude it's not uncommon for politicians and their staffs to work on language for months, going into double-digit drafts, according to Cherny...