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...first time Harvard’s defense has allowed an individual opponent to rush for over 100 yards since Nick Hartigan of Brown 33 games ago...Pizzotti was sacked three times for the second straight week—prior to this two-game stretch, he had only been sacked twice on the season. —Staff writer Dixon McPhillips can be reached at fmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...
...still being built at the time of the Nabka, and Aljafari’s family left it unfinished, feeling that it was not right to complete someone else’s renovations and that the roof belonged to the past. “The Roof” was screened twice at the HFA, and other screenings in the festival took place at the Museum of Fine Arts, the Coolidge Corner Theater, Northeastern University, and Boston College. This was the first year that Harvard participated in the festival, incorporating some of the pieces into the normal HFA programming. David Pendleton, programmer...
...According to a paper published in this month's Journal of Sports Economics, entitled "Pigskins and Politics: Linking Expressive Behavior and Voting," residents that show overt support for their favorite college football team, in the form of displays like flags on the front yard, are nearly twice as likely as non-fanatics to hit the polls on Election Day. To reach this conclusion, a group of economists at Auburn University used that football-fueled college town as a laboratory. The researchers trolled a county database to find the addresses for nearly 4,000 residences in Auburn, and then last September...
...Laband and his crew crunched the numbers, and found that those with the football paraphernalia were almost twice as likely to vote. "I was very, very surprised," Laband says. Up to this point, most behavioral research has focused on the correlation between the likelihood of voting and displays of political expression - membership in a party, or "Vote Smith for Congress" signs on the porch. "These results show that different kinds of expressive behavior, voting and football fandom, are linked somehow, even if they don't have the common thread of politics," he says...
...After Vedan opened, the pollution killed all the fish so I had nothing to feed my seven children," she complains, adding that the factory brought few of the promised benefits, only cancers and stomach ailments. With no other options, Nung's 19-year-old daughter married a Taiwanese man twice her age. The family now lives on the $100-$200 she sends home every month...