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...just before 11 o'clock when I got through to, when Tony [Coelho] and I talked. He had called me while I was at an event, and then I got back to the hotel and I got the message and we talked for some time, and I called Tipper who was campaigning in Florida and we talked. [Brother-in-law] Frank Hunger was traveling with me and I talked to him before he turned in for the night and then I called Bill. I woke...
...months leading up to the department's founding, black student groups held round-the-clock meetings and set bonfires in the Yard, demanding a new academic field and fairer treatment for black Boston residents they said Harvard wanted to displace. Violent conflict, it was rumored, was just around the corner...
...solution that could help bridge the gap between professors lecturing to students and professors conversing with students are more interactive classes. Instead of accolade laden professors delivering lectures that conclude with the first chime of the eleven o'clock bell, professors can reserve a few minutes during each lecture to answer questions and to listen to student responses to the material. Professors who lecture should also be required to attend each of the class sections at least once during the term, so that they may interact with their students on a more intimate level...
...blast and for the act of survival itself. Scorched and stripped of leaves by the bombing, it now shimmers with a rich green. The memorial is framed by two massive bronze entrance gates: the 9:01 Gate and the 9:03 Gate, the lettering done like a digital clock. The minutes signify the times just before and after the explosion. The hour of 9:02 is represented by the chairs...
...marshaled an unparalleled effort to sway the vote. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has 200,000 dues-paying members, fields a team of high-powered lobbyists that operates out of a Washington "war room" where staff members work the phones, churn out faxes and position reports around the clock. "We're going to win this one because it's the most important vote for business in decades," says Chamber president Thomas Donahue...