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...willing to try whatever they threw at her. When she swam for Harvard’s varsity team, she was the only disabled athlete on the team. Just to get to practice, she had to catch a shuttle and wheel into Blodgett Pool. But Becca V. Agoglia, Kolbe’s swim coach for her junior and senior years at Harvard, said, “I never heard her complain.” “I wasn’t sure how I would fit in...I was pretty afraid,” Kolbe said of her arrival...
...early ’90s, with Bowers v. Hardwick (the case which upheld the criminalization of sodomy) on the Supreme Court’s Docket, and the AIDS crisis exploding into the news, LGBT students were louder and more visible than ever. These students insisted that their professors address issues central to queer identity, demanding a class on sexual orientation and the law, and collaborating with other student groups to push for faculty diversity. Activism flared up more recently when the school decided to let military recruiters on campus rather than risk the University’s federal funding...
...that only the European Union’s proposal was able to halt the current violence. Contrasting the E.U. diplomatic method with America’s singular voice, he cautioned, “It is not because you are one that you are right.” For Eleonore V. Peyrat, another visiting French student, Barroso’s response was a necessary one of strength and confidence. “It was the first time I had heard something like that,” she said...
...aggressive recruiting process. “Lehman had events every week, ranging from panel discussions to info sessions to resume workshops,” Bresnahan said. “Lehman made it clear that they wanted Harvard students to work at their firm.” Vikas V. Mouli ’09, who interned in the investment bank’s Global Power Group over the summer, agreed with Bresnahan. “There were plenty of opportunities to interact with people from Lehman,” Mouli said about the recruitment process. “They always...
...China has yet to declare a plan to put an astronaut on the moon. But that is the ultimate goal of the steps its program has been taking, says Johnson-Freese. On October 15 and 16, 2003, Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei completed 14 orbits of the earth in Shenzhou V, making China the third nation after the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. to put a human into space independently. Two years later Shenzhou VI carried two Chinese astronauts into space. This week's Shenzhou VII spacewalk is part of preparations for constructing a Chinese space lab. Subsequent flights would carry...