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...years, the federal government has tried to assist Amtrak’s bid to provide this travel need, but fares offered by the beleaguered passenger train service remain distressingly high. For travel times of over four hours, standard round-trip tickets between Boston and New York cost around $110, and for service via the crown jewel of the Amtrak network—namely, the “high-speed” Acela train—these prices rise to over $200 for trips that last only an hour less. JetBlue, on the other hand, offers round-trip tickets ranging from...
Turkey and the E.U. Your notebook item "how to talk to Turkey" [Sept. 26] reported on Turkey's decision to try its well-known author Orhan Pahmuk for "publicly denigrating" the nation. As you noted, this prosecution could count against Turkey's bid to enter the European Union. Advocating for Turkish E.U. membership in order to encourage a kind of moderate and democratic Islam can be a noble mission. Nevertheless, the E.U. should not ignore popular opinion. What if millions of European citizens simply do not want Turkey - a militaristic, deeply nationalistic, Asiatic (geographically as well as culturally) country that...
...performances with its outstanding defensive play, the Leopards are on the fast track to repeating as Patriot League champions. A victory over Harvard can solidify Lafayette’s at-large credentials to get in the Division I-AA playoffs, even if the team later loses the automatic bid that goes to the Patriot League champion...
...daunting resume to run up the flagpole come December.Indeed, Haddock is by no means out of the game, according to several UC members—including former Campus Life Committee (CLC) Chair Lauren P. S. Epstein ’07, a rumored presidential hopeful who lost her CLC reelection bid this year to Voith.Voith served as vice-chair under Epstein last semester, when the committee weathered harsh criticism for a series of unsuccessful social events. Most detrimental of all were the Springfest Afterparty and the under-attended “Havana on the Harbor” Booze Cruise, both...
...Epstein joined the UC as a sophomore and became chair of CLC after only one semester. Epstein is credited with bringing legitimacy to the CLC by holding regular, serious meetings to plan social events, but unfortunately some of the major events were not successful. Epstein lost her re-election bid to her former vice-chair, John F. Voith III ’07, last week. TARA GADGIL ’07: Gadgil joined the UC as a member of SAC when she was a sophomore. During the last year, she drafted a position paper critiquing Harvard’s Curricular...