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...collaborate with these scholars instead of sitting behind them,” added Bevilacqua, who is also a Crimson editorial editor. Catering to its younger audience, the center is featuring a podcast interview series entitled “VOIX—Voices from Europe.” The student-driven project allows undergraduates to ask questions to the center’s guests, such as French anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker Stéphane Breton, and the former French ambassador to the U.S., Jacques Andréani. The first of a series of dinners with faculty and dignitaries is scheduled...
...addition to the Congressional races, Democrats are expecting to make gains in the 36 states that are having gubernatorial elections. Of those, Republicans are defending 22 statehouses; Democrats are trying to hold onto 14. Turnout in many states is also being driven by hot-button ballot initiatives. Where bans on gay marriage helped bring out Republican voters in the last few cycles, initiatives on the minimum wage and on stem-cell research could have the opposite effect this time...
...Finally, in what could be a major decision in a vicious fight that swept through California and Washington State in the late '90s driven by African American businessman Ward Connerly, Michigan will decide if it wants to amend the state constitution to eliminate affirmative action in public institutions for educational, employment and contracting purposes...
...describes men "going down before the machine guns like corn before the reaper ... I am sure there was some plan at the back of the attack but it is difficult to know what it was." Sergeant Archie Barwick, a farmer, writes of the German bombardment at Pozi?res: "Men were driven stark staring mad ... Any amount of them could be seen crying & sobbing like children." Corporal Arthur Thomas, a tailor, writes home on his 40th birthday, "I should be out of it by now, but men are wanted, so will stick it to the end." Sgt. Jimmy Downing recalls the fighting...
Patrick will also take advantage of the wealth of educated and driven people in Massachusetts to transform the Commonwealth into a center for economic growth in promising markets. Massachusetts is home to some of the best institutions of higher education in the country, but many of the most talented and promising students leave after graduation. Patrick is committed to curbing this trend. He has innovative ideas and common sense solutions for making Massachusetts a world leader in technological innovation and socially constructive business, especially in biomedicine, biotechnology, and renewable energy. Examples of his ideas include building a biofuel factory...