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...Starting Tuesday, a group of conservative activists led by Floyd Brown, author of the famous Willie Horton ad used so effectively against Michael Dukakis in 1988, will begin a campaign to tar Obama as weak on crime and terrorism, a strategy that aims to upend Obama's relatively strong reputation among Republican voters...
...entirely by freshmen. From its start, the plot is carried by its zany characters, such as capital venturist Dolores B. Sciencecenter (Emily B. Hecht ’11) and the spastic game-show host Ken Karson (Mike A. Yashinsky ’11). As the play progresses, the castaways begin to form a society led by the egomaniacal Brandon (Tony J. Sterle ’11), and only down-to-earth Cassandra (Caroline R. Giuliani ’11) can see the roots of tyranny taking place. As their society develops, Brandon seeks more power at the expense...
Texas social workers will begin conducting DNA tests today to identify the 416 children taken into custody from the fundamentalist Mormon ranch near Eldorado since April 3. A district court judge granted the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS) permission to test the children last Friday, as the agency's custody workers continued to struggle with the serious, complicated task of determining which children belong to whom - a task further clouded by the fact that children and mothers gave evasive, shifting answers during interviews...
...There aren’t enough beds for upperclassmen to begin with. As Cabot House Master Jay M. Harris told The Crimson, “every House is above capacity, there wasn’t an inch of space.” Adding transfer students only stands to compound a problem that has, in the words of The Crimson Staff, already caused the “unprecedented breaking of an unspoken pact that leaves the Class of 2009 feeling at worst, cheated and at best, ignored.” Space constraints have become “a matter of mental...
...Hopkins Observatory in Arizona in preparation for use as part of a joint operation by Harvard and the University of Geneva that will be based in the Canary islands. The New Earths Initiative, to which Harvard will contribute $6.5 million of astronomical equipment, including the astro-comb, will begin scanning the skies for Earth-like planets in late 2009 or early 2010, according to Szentgyorgyi. But while many say Earth-like planets are the most likely locations of extra-terriestial life, Szentgyorgyi did note that this belief may prove unfounded. “It may turn out that there?...