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...rider, or a horse farm manager, Cloos took the advice of a summer employer and started thinking about horseshoeing.“My parents were sort of resistant to the horse interest,” says Cloos.Although she started riding when she was seven, her interest in horses remained latent throughout boarding school and most of college. One day during her undergraduate years, the opportunity to ride again came when she confessed her love for horses—and not classical mechanics—to her undergraduate adviser, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi...
...outrage is the trial that declared him not guilty: the judge, a fool and incompetent whose love of publicity turned the trial into a circus; the defense lawyers, not one of whom could have doubted the man's guilt yet who cynically played on the jury's ignorance and latent racism to win a disgraceful verdict; the prosecutors, total incompetents who bungled a gimmie, then shamelessly cashed in afterwards; the media that turned the brutal deaths of two innocents into TV's first reality-show soap opera...
...freshman dormitories, and he worked along with representative Randall S. Sarafa ’09 to gain keycard access for upperclassmen in the Yard.It can be politically risky for a junior presidential candidate to run with a sophomore, Greenfield says, because doing so can lead other sophomores with latent presidential aspirations to deny their support for a potential future competitor.The last time a sophomore was elected vice president was in 2001, according to the UC’s Web site. Sujean Lee ’03 was elected the council’s president the following year.Greenfield likened picking...
...which contributed greatly to the eradication of smallpox. Fauci serves as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. His work has focused primarily on the fight against HIV and AIDS. Among other contributions, Fauci’s research proved that HIV is never latent in infected patients. Former U.S. Surgeon General Julius B. Richmond, the emeritus professor of health policy at Harvard for whom the award is named, spoke at the presentation, along with both honorees. Richmond emphasized the importance of public health practice in universities to teach “the application of our basic...
...Iraq was the issue that crushed Lieberman in the Democratic party. And the blogs were the vehicle that helped that latent but pervasive disgruntlement among Connecticut Democrats become aware of itself. But Joe Lieberman succumbed to a political ailment (common to long-serving senators) that would have been as recognizable to Daniel Webster and Henry Clay as it was to so many 21st century bloggers: He got his head lost in the clouds of national politics and lost touch with his constituents...