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...vision behind this event was to celebrate women in the arts without being talky,” said Annemarie E. Munn ’08, one of the Women’s Center interns in charge of organizing the event. To that effect, in between the performances by Harvard bands After Hours and The Sinister Turns and soloist Catherine D. Tuttle ’09, organizers asked the audience trivia questions about famous female musicians. Sandra L. Ullman ’07, the program administrator at the center, said that the organization conceived of the event last spring, and decided...
...change the defensive philosophy for Harvard, which held Quakers rushers to an average of just 1.8 yards per carry.“We just stuck to the scheme,” junior linebacker Matthew Thomas said.The lack of experience at running back might have had a big effect on Penn’s passing game. The two Quakers quarterbacks combined to go 14-for-35 for just 125 yards and an interception.“The toughest part for me was picking up blitzes today,” DiMaggio said. “Personally, that gave me some confusion. They...
...Still, both campaigns know that attacking each other this early is a dangerous move, especially since there is evidence that their united front is starting to have some effect. A Marist College poll of New Hampshire Democrats released over the weekend has Clinton ahead of Obama among likely primary voters in the state, 36%-25%, a lead that has narrowed significantly from her 41% to Obama's 20% in October. At the same time, a Boston Globe/University of New Hampshire poll of likely New Hampshire primary voters found Clinton down eight percentage points from 43% in September...
...Peter Ndivo looks an unlikely combatant in a battle with environmentalists thousands of miles away. Yet, Ndivo's three-acre farm in rural Kenya is in the front line of a dispute that pitches eco-minded Western consumers against poor African communities: The consumers, concerned by the global-warming effect of burning jet fuel to fly produce from distant lands to European supermarkets, are pressing supermarkets to curb such imports; the farmers see flying fashionable baby aubergines and mange tout peas to Europe as their ticket out of poverty...
...banks have opened branches, shiny bicycles fill the dirt tracks that criss-cross the village and new buildings are appearing everywhere. Vegcare, the company that collects the produce and sells it on to Britain, estimates the trade is worth $46,000 to the village each month. And the same effect is visible elsewhere, as fresh flowers, fruit and vegetable now make up two-thirds of exports from Kenya to the European Union, according to the Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya. Half of this goes to British supermarket shelves and is worth $200 million each year to Kenya, where...