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Fret not, die-hard Harvard hockey fans. The Crimson's two games at Yale and Princeton this weekend, will give it a chance to climb the ranks...
...never seen a poll, I would have thought that Roosevelt, with three million dollars, would be a very formidable candidate," he says. "Looking at the polls, you have to say he's got a severe uphill climb, even if he had three million dollars...
Particularly in California, the fight reflects two very different views of immigration. Brown and her team have concluded that immigrants come streaming across the border seeking jobs with which to help their families and climb into the middle class. Wilson, on the other hand, argues that the immigrants are mainly attracted by the bounty of welfare benefits. These views yield opposite solutions: Wilson wants to stem the flow by curtailing the services. Brown prefers clamping down on the illegal workplace...
...understand the reason, it may be necessary to climb into a time machine, to return to the moment. Events occur in contexts. At the time, it seemed that nothing less than such a devastation would serve to eradicate a Japanese militarist regime that had killed infinitely more innocent civilians than died on those two nuclear mornings. The scales of death were pretty heavy, well before the Bomb. Four months earlier, Americans suffered 48,000 casualties taking Okinawa. And in March 1945, the incendiary- bomb raids had burned down much of Tokyo and killed at least 100,000, a toll approaching...
...pressure has grown all summer as gas, cigarette and food prices continued to climb. Residents of the capital began riding the ferry across Havana Bay four or five times a day, hoping it would be hijacked to Key West. Other Cubans began to commandeer motorboats and tugboats, but the authorities gave chase and opened fire. On July 13 at least 32 people died on the tugboat Trece de Marzo after it was rammed and sunk by pursuing Cuban ships. Aug. 5 saw the largest antigovernment demonstrations since Castro came to power...