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Click here and search for Harvard to see the squad in action at the preliminaries, but to hear more about their trip and what it means to the program, read on after the jump...
Paint-can drums thundered and homemade signs shuddered outside the Holyoke Center last Thursday as the Student Labor Action Movement protested the university’s staff layoffs. But the hordes of passersby—aloof to the anger—indicated that the “Man” needn’t quake in his boots: The picketers, like many campus activists, proved ineffective...
...were doing and we weren’t going to let [Saturday’s] split get us down. We’ve been working hard to get out of our hitting slump and it just really paid off this past weekend.” Shaw got the action going when she singled to first. She was able to score off a Francis double and a single by junior Melissa Schellberg, who is also a Crimson sports editor. Harvard’s biggest inning of the weekend came in the fourth, as Macadam hit a double with the bases loaded...
That sounds like a scene from an action movie, but in the Gulf of Aden it is legal business practice. That's because the pirates are regarded as criminals, rather than terrorists, under U.S. or international law, which bans money going to individuals or organizations listed as terrorists. Unlike in, say, Iraq, Somali pirates appear to have little interest in killing hostages who are seized along with vessels, and the crews are usually released with the ships when the ransoms are paid. "Paying ransoms is not illegal," says Guillaume Bonnissent, a special risks underwriter for Hiscox Insurance...
...first place. Clinton's strategy announcement came days after U.S. Navy SEAL snipers killed three pirates who were holding Richard Phillips, the captain of the container vessel Maersk Alabama - the first U.S.-flagged ship to be seized off Somalia. The last-resort military rescue plan was put into action after ransom negotiations had broken down. (Read a brief history of the Navy SEALs...