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...premier classes of the undergraduate Harvard education, will face a fork in the road this fall when Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61 ends his 21-year stint atop the course. Handing the reins to Freed Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, the economics department has chosen the correct path for the course, regardless of the gripes of liberal opponents. Ec 10 undoubtedly presents a conservative view of the world to its many students, but it is a classical economic approach. Thus, Mankiw’s intention to inherit the course and teach it with...
...over new zealand, people are fighting the power. At Marsden Point, near Whangarei, Greenpeace activists held a sit-in atop a disused power station last month to protest plans to restart the plant and run it on coal. On the Gowan river, near Marlborough, kayakers turned a March 5 whitewater festival into a demonstration against a hydroelectricity project. In the Waikato, south of Auckland, furious farmers last week burned in effigy the boss of a company that wants to run a power line through their green acres on pylons 70 m high. Bring electricity infrastructure too close to a Kiwi...
...rivalry, a foot race for coastal supremacy. Under Walsh’s direction, a piggyback element found its way into the race’s rulebook. A casual onlooker, upon entering the compound, might have happened upon 215-pound All-Ivy catcher Schuyler O. Mann ’05 atop the back of first baseman W. Rob Wheeler ’05. Team West suffered when Wheeler stumbled. “He did a complete swan-dive face-plant,” according to Salsgiver, and Mann “tumbled over him” end-over...
This was the year that the Crimson hoped to reclaim its perch atop the top of collegiate squash—both as a team and with individual accolades. But a week after No. 1 Trinity beat Harvard, 7-2, to end any dreams the Crimson had of knocking off the Bantams for the first time in nearly seven years, Harvard’s disappointment only grew at the CSA Individual Championships held at Dartmouth...
Corriero pulled through, rising to the occasion not only to break the record, but also to lead her team to victory once more. For her efforts, her name sits atop the goals-scored record for the time being...