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Last Wednesday, former Vice President Al Gore ’69 stood before a packed Tercentenary Theater and proclaimed: “This is a unique moment in which we have to do something unprecedented in favor of the survival of human civilization.” If the faculty and staff who flanked Gore, the President who introduced him, and the thousands of students who gathered to listen were any indication of the future of Harvard’s sustainability work, then Gore could not be more right. The event, which electrified the Harvard student body with a fervor usually...
...quarter, a 7-yard pass to junior Matt Luft was nearly reversed after the back judge decided to pull rank on the linesmen and rule the pass was incomplete—though the linesmen had a much better angle on the play. The referees conferred and ultimately the pass stood. All told, Harvard was somehow able to come away with the win despite having all factors—the opposing team, miserable weather, and the referee corps—working against it. The Crimson didn’t help itself with a pair of obvious critical penalties?...
Already, local anticipation is brimming over. It wasn't just the press crowding to see the candidate outside his grandmother's apartment. "I appreciate him visiting his grandmother," says Arthur Witherspoon of Honolulu, who stood outside Dunham's apartment on Friday within the crowd of about 100 people. "It shows character," says Norma Parado, who lives half of each year in Honolulu, "I'm so glad he's here doing this. He's paused his campaigning for family. That's the kind of person you want leading our country...
...Mandelson twice served in Blair's Cabinet and twice resigned over imbroglios with rich men. He stood down in 1998 after taking a loan from a millionaire colleague to buy a posh house and left government a second time in 2001 after claims, fiercely denied and later dismissed by an enquiry, that he improperly intervened to help a mega-rich Indian entrepreneur seeking British citizenship...
...occasion was certainly marked with much pomp and ceremony. On the Pakistan side, two stern-faced soldiers, sporting camouflaged fatigues and luxuriantly curling mustaches, stood at either end of the gate. Above the heads, the flags of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir lightly fluttered. Azad Kashmir is not one of Pakistan's main four provinces and enjoys a large degree of autonomy, with its own legislature, president and prime minister...