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When Cory A. Booker took office as mayor of Newark, N.J. in 2006, he assumed responsibility for a city torn by crime, economic instability, and explosive racial tensions. Booker, an Yale-educated lawyer, ran on platform of reforming the city’s government and reducing crime. Since taking office, his mayoral agenda—which some consider too idealistic for the harsh reality of Newark, which was decimated following notorious race riots in 1967 riots—has been closely monitored by his constituents and the national media alike. This heavy dose of idealism is what the future lawyers...
...time Harvard sent Balasubramanian one of 1,948 acceptance letters, Yale had been courting him for months...
...Initially I was a bit stunned when I found out that I was accepted to Harvard; this was something I had been dreaming about for several years,” Balasubramanian said. “The decision was not quite as amazing as Yale though since that was the first school I got into...
...highly unusual arrangement, Kennedy will be awarded the honor at “an appropriate future occasion,” said a Harvard spokesman, who added that the senator had originally been slated to attend the event. Also receiving degrees will be spiritual leader, the Aga Khan; Yale developmental psychologist James P. Comer; Princeton art historian Wen C; Fong, Columbia neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel; federal judge Damon J. Keith, women’s historian Gerda Lerner, Stanford computer scientist John McCarthy, University of Chicago biologist Janet D. Rowley, author and commencement speaker J. K. Rowling, and former Harvard Medical School...
...year old Yale Law School graduate has staked his reputation on battling crime, corruption, and unemployment in Newark...