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...Sundquist campaign,” said Laures, who added that he is friends with Sundquist and had informally gained a good idea of what the Sundquist’s campaign platform would look like. Laures’s decision comes only days before official campaigning is set to begin for this year’s elections. Candidates are not allowed to begin drawing from their allotted $400 campaign budgets, seeking student group endorsements, or otherwise soliciting votes until 12:01 p.m. on Thursday. AN OUTSIDE CHANCEHad Laures and Oakland moved forward with their candidacy, they would have represented the third...
...case could be made that any list of reasons why the Harvard women’s hockey team is undefeated, in first place in the ECAC, and ranked second in the nation has to begin with two words: Christina Kessler.The second-year goaltender has been nearly unbeatable between the pipes this season, putting together a sophomore campaign that has her leading the country in every major statistical area for goalies.In six games, she has seen 125 shots come her way, allowing only five to get past her, giving her a .960 save percentage and a .83 goals against average?...
...opened Gmail after a computer-less weekend, you are probably one of those academic superstars who are too busy to be reading this column. What are all these vital communications? Most of the nine hundred messages in my inbox are not addressed to me specifically. Their subject lines begin with brackets, indicating that they come from one of the dozen or so organizations to which I, as a Harvard student, am duty-bound to devote my spare time. Some of them are from my classes. Still others are from Facebook. At most one—Widener Library, informing me that...
...post-2012 successor treaty to Kyoto, Rudd in mid-campaign abruptly took the Howard position: no ratification of Kyoto II unless it requires China and India to limit their carbon emissions. On Iraq, Rudd has moderated Labor's earlier "immediate pull-out" policy. He says he will begin negotiations with the U.S. and Iraq on a staged withdrawal of 500 combat troops - one-third of the total deployment there - to take place over the next seven months...
...Rudd left the stage in triumph Saturday night, some in the audience wondered whether he will maintain his Howard-like campaign face or become more Labor-like. The party's "true believers" hope, along with political commentator Robert Manne, that "when he gets into government, then we'll begin to see the differences again." Voters who swung to Labor only after Rudd moved toward the center may be praying those differences stay small...