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...flurry of support for international programs is a testament to this The number of students at Harvard who study abroad each year has grown by 300 percent in the last six years. Former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby was a staunch supporter of study abroad and David Rockefeller ’36 recently donated $100 million to the college, 70 percent of which was intended to go towards students learning about foreign cultures through international travel...
...Autonomy is favored by more than the two-thirds of Santa Cruz voters needed to pass, according to polls, and Governor Ruben Costas, a staunch Morales opponent, said recently that it would "give birth to a new republic." He has since denied that he implied a separatist movement for Santa Cruz or the other three eastern states: Beni, Pando and Tarija, which will hold similar votes this summer. But critics say the remark betrayed an underlying goal of the country's eastern elite: gaining total control over Bolivia's vast natural gas reserves and its most fertile land...
...head of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family, Colombian-born Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo was a staunch advocate of the Roman Catholic Church's conservative policies, opposing abortion, stem-cell research, gay marriage and contraception--at one point calling into question the efficacy of condoms in preventing the spread of HIV. Considered a possible candidate for Pope before Benedict XVI succeeded John Paul II in 2005, López Trujillo was deeply wary of leftist liberation theology and its influence on Latin American Catholicism. "I don't believe that in Latin America, Marxism has any possibilities," he said...
...goal to no avail. “We weren’t shooting on cage and none of our shots were going in,” Snyder said. “We were getting opportunities but just not capitalizing on them.”Brown’s staunch defense pitched a shutout, the first time this season that Harvard failed to get on the scoreboard. Bears’ goalie Stephanie Laing, with eight saves recorded her second career shutout. HARTWICK 17, HARVARD 7The third time proved not to be a charm for the Crimson as they dropped their third...
...Four runs is like 40 right now,” Walsh said. Junior Ryan Watson had an unsightly relief appearance in the seventh—two walks, two hit batsmen—but Stoeckel surprisingly came in from shortstop to take the hill and managed to staunch the bleeding. —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...