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Each year brings change in college hockey, and for the Harvard men’s hockey team, both ends of the ice have roles for the nine incoming freshmen to fill. Aside from the questions surrounding who will start in goal, Harvard is looking to bolster its offensive lines after graduating six forwards last season.The Crimson’s roster includes players who have substantial experience at the national junior level, but the first task will be to adjust to the pace of college hockey and the length of the season.Though some of Harvard’s top goal-scorers...
...CityStep’s favorable reception prompted the organization’s leaders to establish an endowment in the late 1980s in order to bolster its long-term health. Just last week, CityStep was designated a “Shared Interest Group” by the Harvard Alumni Association, meaning that the program’s leaders will now be able to reach out to all alumni...
...lampoonable episodes than many had expected when Obama tapped the man who had famously described him as "articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." Whereas McCain's pick of a running mate was a big move aimed at jolting the race, Obama had hoped instead to bolster his foreign policy credentials, give him a second chance with white Catholics and, above all, do no harm. And though some Obama allies had qualms about Biden's tendency to run off the rails, they noted he had kept it in check during his own presidential campaign. Since being picked...
...There may be little Ma's China policy can do to significantly bolster Taiwan's economy in the face of the global financial crisis. The economy is highly dependent on exports, especially of electronics, to the U.S. and elsewhere. Taiwan's export orders grew only 2.8% in September from a year earlier, the slowest pace since 2002. The consumer confidence index in October dropped to the lowest level since monthly surveys were first conducted...
...cavernous expanse of stage nearly half a football field wide. In their dress-up uniforms, they're an exotic-looking bunch: wearing kilts, playing bagpipes, sporting tam-o'-shanters with a red feather. This Scottish army regiment seems out of place in Iraq, transferred from Basra to bolster U.S. troops bogged down in the "triangle of death" near Baghdad. But their plainspoken, Highland-accented gripes about the war have a familiar ring. "You're no' really doing the job you're trained for," says one soldier. "You're no' defending your country. We're invading their country and f______ their...