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...finals race, logging times of 7.24 and 7.33, respectively. The Crimson’s 4x400 meter relay teams continued to put up impressive performances. The women’s A team blew past the competition with a time of 4:00.00, and Hartford beat the B team by just 0.6 seconds, settling for third place with a time of 4:06.86. The men’s team did just as well, finishing second behind University of Massachusetts-Lowell’s A team with a time of 3:24.92. In the field events, senior Elissa Reidy leaped 11.05 meters...

Author: By Ricky Liu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seniors Lead Hot Start | 12/14/2008 | See Source »

...with the harvest, which is thriving, but with the economy, which is not. For more than a decade, Spanish olive growers have relied on migrants willing to beat branches and collect fallen fruit; last year they made up roughly 15% of the seasonal workforce, according to Andrés Bódalo, a representative of the Andalusian Workers' Syndicate. Yet thanks to a looming recession that has pushed unemployment to more than 11%, those migrants are finding the jobs have gone to newly out-of-work locals, who are only too happy to collect $72 for the back-breaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Harvest in Spain's Olive Country | 12/14/2008 | See Source »

...stuttered, unemployment among migrants has risen - by 67% over the past year in Spain. So grim has the outlook become that the Spanish government has initiated a program that essentially pays out-of-work migrants to go home. "It's not that anyone has anything against the migrants," says Bódalo. "But if you're an olive farmer and your cousin or your neighbor comes up to you and says, 'I need the work; put me on the squad,' you're going to go with the person you know." (See pictures of immigrant workers in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Harvest in Spain's Olive Country | 12/14/2008 | See Source »

...girl, girl, partner, partner; whoever you love,” said PCC co-director Justine R. Lescroart ’09, a former Crimson columnist and active editorial editor. “Or whoever you want to have sex with,” added PCC counselor Marianna B. Tu ’09, to laughter from the audience. In an open discussion last night in Ticknor Lounge entitled “Sextalk: How to get what you want (in bed),” an intimate audience was given an overview of topics ranging from improving communication with a sexual partner...

Author: By Adeline S. Rolnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Sextalk’ Offers Frank Advice | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

Sparkly. Looking for a Christmas gift for someone who needs to celebrate or just cheer up? Log on to Moët & Chandon's website and get personalized bottles of bubbly with greetings of your choice, like "Cheers" or "Happy B-Day" or "Lehman Bros 2008," spelled out in Swarovski crystals. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personalized Bottles of Bubbly and Other Cool Deals | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

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