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Meanwhile, a student-led petition calling on Harvard to sell its holdings in Sudan-linked firms garnered its 1,000th signature this past weekend. That total is more than the roughly 800 names that a similar petition targeting Harvard’s holdings in PetroChina garnered last year. Harvard divested from PetroChina last April due to concerns about the firm’s ties to the Sudanese government...
...year for you to learn about Dinosaurs, their relatives, and the Fountains of Central Italy.Last year, though, the Harvard name got so big that even baseball’s brightest stars began expressing opinions about our humble institution.Shortly after future Hall of Famer Greg Maddux recorded his 3,000th strikeout, current Cooperstown tenant Don Sutton couldn’t help but make a Cambridge comparison. In describing Maddux’s intelligence, Sutton said the hurler was very sharp, but “wiser than he is smart. I don’t know if he could be the president...
...needed something to happen, because we weren’t shooting the ball particularly well. We needed some rebounding as well, so we took a chance and put him in there.” The 6’8” forward silently got his 1,000th point and more, running off eight to pull the Crimson back within three, and he added two more free throws after the next media timeout to shave the deficit to 23-21. With the momentum effectively shifted, Sullivan pulled Stehle out of the game after the made free throws, in order to keep...
After what might have been the worst week of his Presidency, in which a key adviser was indicted, his Supreme Court nominee withdrew under fire from conservatives and the 2,000th U.S. soldier died in Iraq, George W. Bush is looking to move forward on a number of key issues. The President got an early start on righting things with Republicans by announcing this morning that federal appeals court judge Samuel Alito is the new nominee to replace Sandra Day O?Connor...
...only four men accumulated 200 hits. Looking at Rose's and Cobb's distinction the simplest way, all anyone must do to gather 4,191 hits is to come up with 200 a year for 20 years and then get 191 more. Against this standard last week, the 3,000th hit of seven-time Batting Champion Rod Carew, 39, splendid as it was, might have seemed diminished. "I wonder how he felt," Rose muses with concern. Shifting, he says, "How do we know, 100 years from now, that they won't be pitching from 80 ft. instead...