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...Washington, D.C. City Council made bold steps toward institutionalizing gay marriage in October, steps that we encouraged Congress not to override. A similar endeavor was undertaken in Maine with the vote on “Question One” but yielded less success because voters opposed gay marriage. However, the debate itself highlighted a problem in the very understanding of civil unions: Marriage itself is a religious institution that is inappropriately included in public law, and thus all marriages should instead be legally defined as secular “civil unions.” Despite the disappointment in Maine...
...these are not real failures. These are hiccups. We’ve been blessed with enough talent and luck to gain the advantage of a Harvard degree, which, going forward, will allow us to try, fail, and get back up. Of course, we can fail at any one endeavor. But we’ll always be able to get back up. This is the great blessing of a Harvard education...
Welsh said that Wei had been instrumental in planning and securing funding for the “Robobee” project, a research endeavor involving 11 professors from fields as disparate as computer science and organismic and evolutionary biology. The project, which will be supported by a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation, aims to create a cooperative colony of miniature flying robots that resemble bees...
Brown said she hopes that Harvard will continue to make progress toward its green goals, though she acknowledged that it is a long-term endeavor...
Smider insists he has a method to his madness. He ran as part of the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge, which raises money for breast cancer research. But Smider also had personal reasons for his endeavor, getting involved to honor his sister-in-law, Elizabeth G. Smider, who died of breast cancer...