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...Harvard activists comprised one branch of an April Fool’s Day campaign involving pranks by AIDS activist groups in New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and Florida—all coordinated by the national AIDS and human rights activist group Health Global Access Project. HAC, accompanied by alumni and students from Harvard Medical School and Boston University, rallied in Bowdoin Square in front of Sen. Kerry’s office before going in to present the check and discuss AIDS funding with Sen. Kerry’s Foreign Relations staffer Chris Wyman...
Mulani, who serves as Governor of the Midwestern Region in the Junior State of America program and wishes to study classics and computer science, says he will be choosing between University of Chicago, New York University, Williams, and Harvard...
...discovered skiing several years during a trip to Colorado, where her father, a New York City firefighter, was being honored after the September 11 attacks. There, when Sarubbi clicked into her skis for the first time, she says she “immediately fell in love with...
...recently passed health care bill introduces a 10 percent tax on indoor tanning services. Dr. June Robinson, a clinical professor of dermatology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, tells the New York Times that the dream is that this tax will work to decrease tanning bed usage much as prior taxes on addictive substances like tobacco and alcohol have decreased usage of those taxed items. The Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation also estimates that the tax will raise $2.7 billion over 10 years in hopes of offsetting some of the cost of providing health insurance...
...major story - and it should be. Some supporters of Pope Benedict XVI note that sex abuse of children is by no means a problem afflicting only the Catholic Church and have alleged media bias in the coverage of the issue. In fact, the Vatican singled out the New York Times for such coverage. But most journalists and non-Catholics derive no satisfaction at all from seeing these events unfold. The horror at the victims' suffering drives the narrative. But this is also a tale of human failings - both moral and administrative - by some who may otherwise be decent people, causing...