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...Some, of course will angrily protest, and ask if I really think that professional sports loyalties are the most perfect expressions of one’s heritage. Some will ask if I really think that swapping a Phillies, or any other team’s, cap for a Red Sox hat is a crime comparable to treason. Do I really think this way? No, of course not. But the readiness of many Harvard students to completely jettison their past identity and swap it wholesale for a Boston one speaks to issues far more serious than the lack of McNabb jerseys...
...biggest player in translation services last year was publicly held Lionbridge, employing 4,000 full-time staff members and 10,000 freelancers in 25 countries, with a current market cap of $350 million. Lionbridge, based in Massachusetts, translates technology for mobile-phone companies and clients such as McDonald's, Google and Yahoo!. "Computer code is code," says Lionbridge chief marketing officer Kevin Bolen. "But certain things such as metrics, time stamps and characters have to be re-engineered and hard-encoded into the software to display Japanese kanji, for instance...
...significant bump to interest in and attendance at its games. Nor will Beckham be alone among waning stars in crossing the Atlantic: His deal was made possible by change in MLS rules to allow each team to sign one player outside of the limits of an existing salary cap that prevented Americans teams from offering rewards that would tempt many European stars...
...Gungzhou, China, to play in the Four Nations Tournament. The United States, ranked second internationally, will kick off tournament play on January 26 against top-ranked Germany. It will also play 12th-ranked England and ninth-ranked host China over the next four days. With 153 “caps,” Markgraf reports to camp as the most experienced member of this year’s national team. In her eight-year career representing the U.S., Markgraf has appeared in 146 games, starting 137. What’s more, she has played for the U.S. in two Women?...
...only about $100,000 from private donors and the FAO on an annual basis, C-CAP can provide $125 stipends for students whose families make under $40,000 a year and $75 stipends for students whose families make under $60,000 a year, affecting almost one-sixth of the Harvard undergraduate student population. These stipends aren’t enough, but they are a big step in the right direction. Their delivery to students will finally demonstrate the treatment of books as an academic necessity, rather than us just another undergraduate commodity...