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...Altough Morales, who leads voter polls with about 36%, has made bashing Washington a centerpiece of his campaign, he may not be able to keep his populist promises. The U.S. campaign to eliminate coca may be widely unpopular in Bolivia, where chewing the leaf is deeply entrenched in the culture, but by legalizing its cultivation Morales would risk losing the more than $200 million in essential aid Bolivia receives from Washington. Similarly, while it may be politically popular to call for nationalization of natural gas reserves, that would likely alienate the U.S. and other multinational firms that Bolivia needs...
...Altough I imagine few Harvard students’ career searches have been quite as harrowing as mine has been (and I happen to believe that grocery bagging isn’t even a career, strictly speaking), in this uncertain economy concern about postgraduate plans seems to be nearly universal. Dining hall conversations revolve around summer internships; house résume workshops are thronged with anxious would-be investment bankers. We half-expect—and many of our parents fully expect—that we will find lucrative employment upon graduation, but the plum jobs that seemed...
Another time, just before altough match, Pompan looked down and said: "Hey, look how small those people are down there. They look like ants. Oh, they are ants...
...Altough five Radcliffe students had originally signed to meet with the recruiter, three canceled their appointments this week. "One girl had a schedule conflict, another had a very promising interview today and felt that she was no longer interested in Honeywell, and the third canceled as a matter of conscience," Mary D. Albro. director of the Career Planning Office said last night...
...Altough taking a close defeat from the informal Business School combination, the first of the week, the yearling not-men exhibited a marked improvement in form when they ran through the Browne and Nichols team for a 5-1 victory on Wednesday. With Captain ingraham a likely winner in the singles and, when paired with Dixon, a probable scorer in first doubles, the Freshmen may be relied upon to give a good account of themselves against the Green this afternoon...