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Harvard heavyweight captain Michael J. Skey ’03 says he has no plans as of now to join in the protest, though he says he thinks even the 33-day rest period is harmful. Instead, he favors meeting with the presidents to hear “in an open forum why they did this...
Crimson editors cannot conceive of college football without kegs of beer. Harvard students dash off letters of protest over keg bans (Letters, “University Ban on Kegs at Tailgates Laughable,” Oct. 9). It’s an interesting commentary on college drinking that more outraged protest is expressed about curtailing the supply of alcohol than about major social or national problems. In recent years more riots have occurred at American colleges about beer than about economic conditions or armed conflicts...
...before taking to the streets with a sandwich board and protest chants ("We don't split infinitives, and we don't cross picket lines!"), I figured I'd better check out the competition. The good news (for Web surfers) is that Google delivers a surprisingly high-quality product that's just as relevant and up-to-date as the human-edited news outlets with which it competes. The better news (for human editors) is that it can't do what it does without...
...economy staring into an Argentine-style abyss, he needs to sell more of it - especially since the financial crisis has his military enemies itching to stage another coup. (During last week's march, Vice Adm. Alvaro Martin Fossa, the nation's second most powerful military figure, resigned in protest of Chavez's government.) The U.S., meanwhile, bracing for the possibility of petro-market chaos if it invades Iraq, needs more reliable supplies...
...landslide election overthrew one of the world's most rotten political systems, but he seems incorrigibly wedded to a bellicose and autocratic style that many fear could eventually evolve into a left-wing dictatorship like Cuba's. Chavez recently threatened to seize businesses that close for whole days to protest his erratic government. His neighborhood organizations, the Bolivarian Circles, do aid the poor, but they sometimes morph into armed gangs like the ones caught on videotape shooting at opposition civilians just before the coup. And though a recent Venezuelan Supreme Court ruling that exonerated the military officers who led last...