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...People always say I look like every other Asian guy”), 10 of the 12 auctionees were priced in the triple digits. David F. Boswell ’10, who said on his registration sheet that he liked “auctioning off his body for noble causes?? in his free time, went for $0, as he was unfortunately not present at the auction...
...particularly hardworking and dedicated to the senator, according to Ricky M. Hanzich ’11, who spent this past summer working in Kennedy’s Health Policy Office. Working to support the ailing Senator’s efforts on health care—one of his primary causes??employees posted pictures of him around the office alongside a collection of inspiring Kennedy quotations.“I know that every single employee loved him,” Hanzich said. “To them he was more than just the senator—he was their...
...Kennedy’s Senate tenure, the third-longest in U.S. history, has been definitively liberal, but Kennedy also developed a reputation for making compromises to pass landmark, bipartisan legislation. For years, Kennedy was ahead of the curve on pressing political issues, and many of his great legislative causes??such as immigration reform or health care reform—continue to be relevant today...
...hardly the only front on which he believes it needs to be fought. Nesson (who famously told Harvard Law’s student newspaper in 2002 that he had experimented with LSD and cocaine and still often smoked joints on his morning walks) has been working for years on causes??the legalization of marijuana among them—that he sees as important roadmarkers on the path to reliable personal freedoms. In his eyes, there’s a common thread between the illegality of many of his pet causes: on-line poker, recording one?...
Students at three universities went on strike this week to advocate for a variety of causes??—including increasing curricular diversity, reducing student fees, and halting environmentally-unsound campus construction. Protests at Columbia University, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst echo events at Harvard last May, when members of Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) fasted to influence university security guards’ contract negotiations. But while students across the country lobby for different changes and interests, most are met with little or slow change. According to the Daily...