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...field in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:50.44. The next day, she swam the 200-yard freestyle in 1:49.98 to achieve a 58th-place finish. “Although I didn’t place as high as I wanted to, or go the fastest of my times, I think it’s great to be here as a freshman,” Clarke said. Papadakis, who is also a Crimson sports editor, placed 29th in the three-meter dive, logging 290.50 points to improve upon her 35th-place finish last year. Despite missing...
...influx, indeed, was "almost certainly the largest-ever single wave of immigration that these islands have ever experienced," according to John Salt, professor of geography at University College London. With 10,000 arriving in Ireland each month since 2004, the country of 4 million people experienced the fastest period of population growth since the current system for measuring migrant flows was introduced in 1987. "What happened here in two years is what happened in other countries in a generation," says Sean Murray, head of economic migration for the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in Dublin...
...little bit off, it can mean a lot.” “They’ve been kind of banged up recently,” Barrett added, referring to Mullen and Gutierrez. Barrett performed exceptionally, taking eighth in the 5000 and knocking 11 seconds off of his fastest time. “Running a time like that, you kind of want to break some mental barriers,” Barrett said. “I’d go out and race tomorrow after a race like that.” Junior Alex Lewis also competed...
...Iraq has driven nearly 4 million people from their homes. As many as 2 million have fled the country, in what Refugees International calls the fastest-growing crisis in the world. As detailed in the stories that follow, the burden of coping with this exodus has fallen most heavily on Iraq's neighbors, such as Syria, Jordan and Iran, who have absorbed the vast majority of exiles. But the war's reverberations are being felt beyond the Middle East, in places as seemingly distant and incongruous as Sweden, which has taken in more than 11,000 Iraqis since...
...study of South Asia—home to 1.6 billion people, some of the globe’s earliest advanced civilizations, followers of four of the world’s largest religions, two nuclear powers, and one of the fastest growing economies today—is no longer a special-interest issue. Rather, study of the region has become absolutely essential to any curriculum that seeks to make global citizens of its students. However, despite claims by administrators that Harvard is committed to developing South Asian Studies, we have yet to see the administration devote resources to this area...