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This is not to say that faculty have been unwilling to cooperate. An e-mail sent to professors around noon yesterday by UC President Ryan A. Petersen ‘08 to solicit lists of required textbooks had garnered more than 15 responses in the first two hours, said Staff...
...years after Edsel had died, and his son, Henry Ford II--also known as the Deuce--thought it was undignified to have his dad's name spinning around on hubcaps. Ford execs commissioned extensive semantic studies to find a name for the project, even going so far as to solicit suggestions from the poet Marianne Moore, who offered, among others, Mongoose Civique, Intelligent Whale and Utopian Turtletop. Clearly, naming a car wasn't as easy as it seemed...
...Craig, a three-term Republican senator from Idaho, pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct August 8 after he allegedly tried to solicit sex from an undercover police officer in a men's bathroom at the Minneapolis Airport. Craig, who has a long voting record against gay rights, this week denied any wrongdoing and denied being...
Looking forward, I continue to solicit advice about the structure of Harvard College and names for a permanent dean. A large number of you have already sent me your thoughts, and for those notes and emails I thank you. David has explicitly told me that he does not wish to be considered as a candidate for the permanent position, and I shall soon be appointing ad hoc faculty and student committees to advise me further on a permanent Dean of the College...
...such unlikely political players as Andrew Nicholas, who tutors refugee students at Denver's South High School; Emily Stanton, a stay-at-home mom in Baltimore; and Jeff Larson, a software engineer in Chicago. They are among the 9,500 volunteers, says the campaign, who have signed up to solicit their friends and families by hosting individual fund-raising Web pages for Obama...