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...surrounding areas are highly metropolitan. We even have schools. In fact, my high school offered every Advanced Placement class and was more diverse than Harvard. Atlanta is home to CNN, Coca-Cola, the world’s busiest airport, and the fifth-largest number of Fortune 500 companies, falling behind two shockingly Southern cities—Houston and Dallas. True, you can find serene, peaceful farms if you drive for a few hours outside of Atlanta, a similar experience to taking the train out from Paris or any other cosmopolitan city. I’ve been to a farm once...
There was a rainstorm the day before Radcliffe rugby’s first round play-off game early last week against Boston College. The intramural fields behind Harvard stadium were so sloppy that even in cleats, the players kept slipping through the muck. These are terrible conditions to play in, Uber—who broke her fibula in an early season game—comments from the sidelines, but it makes the game cinematic...
...spite of the restrictions added in response to the College’s earlier concerns, the proposal has been met with continued resistance. House Masters and other administrators have argued that the revisions are not enough to prevent underage drinking—the driving issue behind the demise of the UC’s party grant fund two years...
...rights groups like Human Rights Watch and policy think tanks like Freedom House, the D.C.-based Cuba Study Group and the Brookings Institute. The White House, careful not to alienate Menendez when it needs every Democratic vote on issues like health care reform, has yet to throw its support behind the bill. But despite Obama's backing of the trade embargo, many observers believe it will be hard for him not to sign a lifting of the travel ban given his own stated policy preference for engaging Cuba...
...identity and tried to blackmail her, Marroquín says. His mother reported the extortion attempt but was forced to reveal her ties to Escobar. Startled Argentine authorities abruptly detained Santos, who was held for 18 months on charges of money laundering while Marroquín spent 45 days behind bars. Escobar's daughter, who is now a 25-year-old university student, was also ostracized as nervous parents demanded that she be expelled from school...