Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...will send to Congress--after campaign finance reform--will create for you new avenues of participation in the political process. It will streamline the process for voter registration and for absentee ballots, so you can vote more easily from college; it will offer stipend awards to those who take summer jobs to work in the political process; and it will provide additional scholarships and college loan forgiveness programs for students who promise to enter public service. It will offer you a chance to make politics part of your public service, an opportunity to use the full power of government...
...Nieman Foundation for Journalism and its new curator certainly make strange bedfellows. For years, the foundation, one of the world's most distinguished institutions in its field, has sought to protect core journalistic values from the corporate grasp of media conglomerates. Former curator Bill Kovach, who left last summer, was much-admired for his outspoken stance against the disorienting influence of corporate control. In particular, Kovach and other distinguished critics have pointed out that such corporate influence has led to an increased fusion of entertainment, business and editorial content, as well as an increased reliance of facts gained through speculation...
...style and her presence, of course, are not what we usually associate with the U.S. Open's green cement courts, and certainly not with Wimbledon's trimmed lawn courts, where Williams won her first major tennis title earlier this summer. There is an edge to Williams' vogue that seems to embrace her womanliness as much as it rejects its conventions and etiquette. Williams' most recognizable feature is her braided and beaded hair. And while her flashy, swinging braids rebel against the tennis decorum of ponytails or cropped hair, the style also admits to her vanity...
...search for Harvard's 27th president officially kicked off this summer, as the Harvard Corporation named the nine-member search committee...
Harvard faced continued legal action this summer from two former employees suing the University...