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...yingwang@fas.harvard.edu The following students of the class of 2007 were elected into Phi Beta Kappa last month: Joshua H. Billings, Classics; Jarred D. Brown, Engineering Sciences; Steven J. F. Byrnes, Physics; Thomas M. Clay, Classics; Merve G. Emre, Government; Nicholas R. Green, Economics; Rachel M. Greenblatt, Biology; David S. Jackson-Hanen, Mathematics; Alexandra D. Harwin, History; Daniel J. Hemel, Social Studies, who is the managing editor of The Crimson; Hajin Kim, Economics; Daniel P. Krauthammer, Social Studies; Yuenbee J. Park, Economics; Guilio J. Pertile, English; Shayak Sarkar, Applied Mathematics; Kaloyan S. Slavov, Mathematics; Craig R. Sincock II, Economics; Steven...
...best places to catch a glimpse of these native bovines is Wyoming?home not only to Yellowstone National Park but also the Teton Mountains and the National Elk Refuge. Just to the south of these three ecological wonderlands is the 400-hectare Spring Creek Ranch (springcreekranch.com) at Jackson Hole. Under the guidance of Kurt Johnson, the ranch's resident naturalist, and armed with spotting scopes and high-powered binoculars, guests get a backstage pass to Wyoming's majestic menagerie. The kind of activity on view depends on the time of year. May's awkward newborns turn into playful calves during...
...Elliott Stonecipher, a political analyst and demographer in Shreveport. "If there is a racial aberration in voting, all bets are off. If a lot of African Americans turn out, Nagin runs stronger. If the African Americans don?t get their act together - and the Democratic National Committee and Jesse Jackson are very worried about that - then Nagin runs fourth or fifth...
...Nagin?s new populism was on vivid display, however, at a recent rally and march organized by Jackson?s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to protest the April 22 primary. Thousands turned out to cheer the mayor, Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton, who equated the New Orleans election to the disenfranchisement efforts against blacks during the Civil Rights era. (Comedian Bill Cosby was welcomed too until he excoriated the crowd for the city?s high murder rate, drug-dealing ways and teenage pregnancies.) Nagin supporters like Candy Williams, who lost her New Orleans home in Katrina, vowed to get far-flung family...
...polling places outside of New Orleans but in-state, near the borders of neighboring states. Community groups like ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which help low- and moderate-income families, have organized buses leaving Monday from Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Atlanta and Jackson, Miss., to get voters to these satellite locations for early voting. But compared to the sophisticated effort to get Iraqis to vote in the U.S., the get-out-the-vote effort for Louisiana residents is a ragtag affair. "I?m trying to get the info out but FEMA won?t tell us where...