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...rink, surrounded by towering models of candles and a vast canvas featuring a moonlit lake, is a surreal spectacle in the midst of Mexico City's grinding traffic, colonial churches and endless protest marches. To add to the illusion of escape, sweet ballads play through huge speakers as the skaters glide along. Skating is a novel experience for most of those venturing onto the ice, and teams of white-helmeted city workers are constantly rushing to help citizens who have fallen on their faces. "Don't form chains," a supervisor cautions over the public-address system. "Don't smoke...
...will increase financial support for graduate students in order to make Harvard more competitive with its peer institutions, a step that will no doubt increase the quality of undergraduate teaching fellows while also making a graduate degree more affordable. All in all, these new financial aid policies represent a huge step forward. In past years, Harvard has pioneered one of the most generous financial aid programs in the country via the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, which made attendance at the College free for students whose families earned less than $40,000 (later raised to $60,000). But with the full...
...know that their rink is huge,” Vaillancourt said. “They’re going play a different game because they’re used to playing on that type of ice. I think we’re expecting a really fast team...
...other words, if players are going to sue, they'd better be certain they're telling the truth about their steroid use, or else they could be subjecting themselves to the same kinds of much more serious perjury charges facing Barry Bonds. "What your going to see is a huge public relations war," says Shapiro. "High-profile agents, publicists issuing denials, saying everything was hearsay, whatever." Players named by Radomski can certainly try to attack his credibility - he's working with the Feds in plea deal, and players could argue he has an incentive to make stuff...
...injury four years back. He has since kept his hair short. "It's great not to have to tie a turban every morning and maintain long hair," he says. "It helped that I didn't have to deal with disapproving looks from my family and neighbors." Convenience is a huge factor for Sikh mothers, too - young, working mothers have no time for the elaborate, early-morning practice of tying turbans and washing boys' long hair on weekends. Moreover, community leaders feel, efforts to preach their values to young Sikhs have lagged. "In India, education has become so secular that even...