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...kicks off, that time has finally arrived.This season, the Crimson will depend on all five sophomores in its campaign to return to the top of the Ivy League. Now that their freshman season is behind them, the talented group of sophomores look to combine game-time experience with the raw talent they brought to Harvard just over a year ago.“There’s such a dramatic difference just one year later in these freshmen becoming sophomores,” Delaney-Smith says. “There’s just...
...attention. It selected Lawrence H. Summers, a Clinton treasury secretary familiar with the Sunday television circuit.So this fall, Lewis dispatched the exact same letter, hoping that the committee now charged with replacing Summers might be more receptive to advice from professors.He had reason to hope so. With wounds still raw from the battle that ended Summers’ presidency, the famously secretive search committee is now going out of its way to consult the faculty that won that battle.Many members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which handed Summers a no-confidence vote in 2005, remain sharply critical...
...Anastasio Somoza in 1979. As Nicaragua's Marxist comandante, Ortega was widely criticized for being as incompetent and corrupt as he was authoritarian. Those who know him say his quest to regain the presidency--he lost elections in 1996 and 2001--stemmed less from leftist ideals than from a raw need to accumulate power and avenge his 1990 humiliation. In 2000 he formed an alliance with President Arnoldo Alemn--a right-wing Somoza acolyte who was later jailed for embezzlement--that helped the Sandinistas dominate Congress and the courts. In 2001 a Sandinista judge who had been a high...
...also spread the word about CPIC,” said Travis A. Lovett, the group’s assistant coordinator. About 40 students mingled in a dimly lit room at John Harvard’s Brew House on Dunster Street, feasting on chicken fingers, colorful tortilla chips, and raw vegetables with dip. Lovett said face-to-face outreach like this would help spread the word about CPIC. Out of the 127 students who applied for public work opportunities through the center last year, 23 undergraduates received summer internship positions and 24 received post-graduate fellowships, said CPIC Coordinator Amanda...
...proved, the two boys from Akron, Ohio deserve all the praise they’ve garnered on their own terms. While Jack and Meg White are lauded for pushing musical their boundaries, the Black Keys have shorn their style to its very skeleton, its bones revealing a marriage of raw blues and Southern rock. Young men in t-shirts playing no-shtick rock in 2006, the Black Keys attract a wide variety of fans, from young indie-rock fans to 50-year-olds eager to see classic rockers that aren’t sagging pitifully in a way that strikes...