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...politics is also, well, political, and NARAL was well aware that if it had withheld its endorsement much longer, it would have risked irrelevance. Now it's so relevant, of course, that it has succeeded in reinvigorating weary Clinton supporters. But that too may fade. Despite Malcolm's feisty rhetoric, her organization has not included references to Clinton's candidacy on the fund-raising appeals they have sent out since the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, as they did with earlier missives. Even candidates of the sisterhood have their expiration dates...
...former presidential candidate and North Carolina Senator John Edwards decamped with his family to Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Despite extensive behind-the-scenes conversations with the campaigns of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Edwards has yet to endorse either candidate. His politically active wife Elizabeth has also withheld her support, though she took time off from their vacation to talk to the media about how much she likes Clinton's health-care plan--and dislikes McCain's. On May 6, John Edwards plans to choose between Obama and Clinton at his local Chapel Hill polling station--in secret...
...recent gift indicates the importance of University leadership in the development process. Rockefeller had planned to give this donation to the university under former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who shared Rockefeller’s vision and dedication towards international study. But after Summers’s departure, Rockefeller withheld his gift from Interim President Derek C. Bok. His decision to give under Faust, and his tailoring of the project to Faust’s own interest in the arts, is an indication of Rockefeller’s belief in the current University president. It is important that the University...
...announced on Sunday upheld the historic victory of the Movement for Democratic Change in the parliamentary election, meaning Mugabe's party has lost control of the legislature for the first time in Zimbabwe's 28-year history. Although the results of the balloting for the presidency continue to be withheld, the opposition is clearly feeling the wind at its back: After several weeks of bloody suppression at the hands of security forces and militias associated with the ruling party, the MDC announced Monday that it had overcome a split in its ranks that had resulted in rival slates of candidates...
Rockefeller had withheld a $75 million gift to fund study-abroad trips for undergraduates in need of financial aid, according to a 2006 story in The Wall Street Journal by Zachary M. Seward ’07-’09, a Crimson news writer. The gift had been a crucial part of Summers’ plan to extend Harvard’s global reach, but because of his resignation, Rockefeller cancelled the large gift and gave $10 million to the Latin American studies center instead...