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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Rating: Junk.* Sorry, Pfoho. You can boast your magnificent lawn and spacious rooms, but face it—you live in the Quad.  You will psyche yourself out that it's not so bad, but on that occasional night where you're standing around freezing at 3:30am, you'll think about the hundreds of hours you light on fire because of living in the Quad and you'll shed a little tear for the cold arbitrariness of life...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: The Housing Crisis: Pforzheimer House | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

Versatility is usually not the first skill for a college baseball player to boast about.However, junior Dan Zailskas has proven that his flexibility to play just about anywhere on the field is one of his most important contributions to the team.“[Zailskas] is the guy that we can always count on on the mound, and the guy whose versatility can fit anywhere in the lineup,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh comments. “I don’t think that Dan cares where he is in the lineup, or where he?...

Author: By Katie Kuzma, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: All-Purpose Junior Impresses Early in Season | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...Sweden is setting a good example: Prisons are not used to house users, but to deal with trafficking and the crimes attendant to the black market. Streamlined criminal procedures have greatly improved the performance and reduced the cost of taking traffickers out of the equation...Sweden can now boast annual drug use rates less than half the average in West and Central Europe. (Read "The Way Station for Europe's Cocaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Disturbing Rise of Drug Gangs | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...many athletes score 1,246 points in their career. Not many athletes can rack up 34 points in one game. Not many athletes can boast of having won back-to-back Ivy League Player of the Weeks. And not many athletes get the opportunity to receive a standing ovation from a crowd...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Emily Tay Wows Crowd in Final Home Games | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

While the Lowell House dining hall may pale in comparison to the grandeur of the world famous “Teatro alla Scala” in Milan, both can proudly boast of producing engaging opera on a grand scale. True to its billing as Harvard’s “flagship annual opera,” the Lowell House Opera (LHO) offered an impressive production of Giuseppe Verdi’s four-act masterwork “Otello” for its 71st annual show, especially considering the constraints of its venue. The LHO’s production?...

Author: By Diego H. Nunez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Despite Constraints, 'Otello' is Impressive | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

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