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...failed to ratify a proposal that would have overturned Italy's restrictive laws on assisted fertility and stem-cell research. Politicians of all stripes acknowledge Ruini as the architect of that victory, thanks to a strategy that simply called for Italians to stay home. The measure attracted a voter turnout of 25.9%, far below the 50% required for a binding result. And he hasn't stopped there. Buoyed by the outcome, Ruini has used lectures, homilies and rare interviews to help squash talk of Italy following Spain's lead on gay marriage, has challenged the use of the abortion pill...
...ballet at age five. And I continued with ballet until the end of my junior year in high school. With ballet, if you want to reach the top level and dance with ABT or the NYC Ballet, you have to be 5’6, 110 pounds, have perfect turnout and great extensions naturally. I wasn’t willing to deal with that. I also wanted to attend Harvard and needed more time to study, so I quit ballet right before my senior year at [Buckingham Browne and Nichols]. One year later, at Harvard’s pre-frosh...
...high number of students willing to wait for hours at the last drive indicates, this campus is committed to giving blood. But the current process, which is crowded and lengthy, prevents an even higher turnout. This problem could be addressed by implementing major structural changes before the next blood drive, planned for next week...
...would be pre-testing for iron levels. With the current system, students wait for hours, only to be turned away because their iron is too low. Frustrated and discouraged, many don’t come back. A simple finger prick before the wait would correct this problem and improve turnout...
...somewhat missing the point. HPU Chair C.R. Sincock ’07 explained that he fears that more-formal debate, à la the Yale Political Union, would intimidate students and act as a “turn-off.” However, given that it attracts a weekly turnout of about 30 of the same students—mostly freshmen—the HPU’s current format needs to do more to stir and retain interest. A greater emphasis on intellectual debate would not detract, but rather inspire and bring in a wider range of students...