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...last month, farmers have driven their tractors along Greece's highways to protest plans to cut subsidies. Even the government's tax collectors walked out for a day, and on Feb. 10, state employees paralyzed the country for 24 hours. A long season of more strikes is almost a certainty...
...silver-medal performance in men's figure skating, the Russian repeatedly insulted his first-place opponent, America's Evan Lysacek, and all but climbed atop the gold-medal podium ... Wait, he did that too. But Plushenko is hardly the first Olympic sore loser. Athletes have pouted their way home almost since the modern Games began...
...Nixon's chief of staff, Al had an even more grueling assignment: holding our government together as its presidency disintegrated in the worst constitutional crisis since the Civil War. Al almost single-handedly saw us through this travail. He was willing, and sometimes eager, to battle for his convictions in the many important positions he held afterward, including those of NATO commander and Secretary of State to President Ronald Reagan...
That being said, the housing is certainly not deserving of its widespread “Dumpster” reputation. N housing is almost guaranteed for sophomores, and the size and layout of rooms is, at the very least, on par with that of other Houses like Lowell and Winthrop...
Harvard tried to improve on the third day of the meet and surpass the Tigers, but even strong finishes in the distance events could not do the job, as Princeton swam to a first-place finish. Meyer won the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 9:01.87, almost nine seconds ahead of second place...