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...good old-fashioned awesome.Thankfully, the Boston-based Awesome Foundation for Arts and Sciences was assembled this June by, among others, several recent Harvard grads in order to help elevate any depleted levels of awesome in the world. The organization, comprised of ten trustees, awards a monthly grant of $1,000 provided directly, no strings attached, to the person whose idea the trustees deem unequivocally “awesome.”Unlike the majority of grant organizations, candidates for the Awesome Foundation fund must only complete a brief online application. The form requires applicants to describe their idea...
Beatty said he spoke to Associate Dean of the College John L. Ellison, who is also the secretary of the Administrative Board, as to whether the Ad Board would grant students an exception if arrested through the environmental protest...
...additional $2,000 represents a semesterly grant to HUTV that will cover operating costs for all 12 shows—six of which were newly added to the HUTV roster this year...
...President Andrea R. Flores ’10 said that giving HUTV jurisdiction over distributing grants to its 12 shows sets a precedent in the UC’s grant-giving process...
...Obama spoke of doing something greater than yourself. He asked House Dems to join him in "bending the arc of history," a phrase he first invoked in his election-victory speech a year ago before 125,000 people in Chicago's Grant Park. And though there was cheering and chants of "Fired up, ready to go!" this was no easy sell for Obama. The vote came the same week as Democrats lost the Virginia and New Jersey governors' mansions, and a day after the Labor Department reported a 26-year record unemployment rate of 10.2%. Preaching altruism in such...