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...desires student input and questions. Council member Peg Lacey, national market manager for the food management software company CBORD, said that it is unusual for a university dining service to welcome so much scrutiny. “For a department to be willing to open up and allow dissection for 48 hours is pretty amazing,” Lacey said. —Staff writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
...Ground Zero. But no matter what political issues or media angles may be buzzing before take-off, the Vatican tends to stress the pastoral aspect of any papal journey. The six-day itinerary is above all stacked with church services, baseball stadium masses and Catholic institutional encounters to allow the pontiff to tend to his flock, and to the priests and bishops who do the ministering when he's back in Rome...
However, other schools’ dispensation plans also let students more easily feed their visiting friends, spending either a meal credit or dining dollars to prevent that inhospitable choice between hunger, cannibalism, and larceny. Yes, Harvard does allow students to purchase a guest meal at their residential dining halls, but at an exorbitant price. Students or their friends can use cash, Board Plus, or Crimson Cash to pay $7.88 for breakfast, $11.03 for lunch, and $13.65 for dinner, as well as $5.57 for continental breakfast (the morning equivalent of Brain Break). $13.65 for dining hall provender? We would fare better...
...performance marked the second impressive start by a freshman in as many days. In Tuesday’s 2-1 victory at Cornell—its first win of the Ivy slate and its second overall—rookie Zach Hofeld threw a complete-game four-hitter to allow the Crimson’s slumping lineup to stay...
...country's main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, has called for Burmese voters to reject the draft. But given that Burma's generals (who prefer to call their country Myanmar) rejected a plea by the United Nations to allow international monitoring of the referendum, no outside observer will be able to indicate whether voting irregularities take place. Furthermore, a February law has made criticizing the referendum a crime punishable by imprisonment - hardly an ideal environment for open debate on the charter draft. Amnesty International estimates 700 political prisoners still crowd the country's jails as a result...