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...rookie talent turned out to be a boon rather than a burden for the Crimson, particularly in the case of Akpan, who was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year and honored with an All-Ivy First Team selection. With 34 points on 11 goals and 12 assists, Akpan set a Harvard freshman scoring record and led all Division I freshmen in the major scoring categories...
...changed the way students experience social life at Harvard.This year was the first full year of operation for the College Events Board (CEB)—an autonomous body with undergraduate-elected members and a $200,000 budget from the College—which has proven to be a boon to Harvard’s social scene. This fall’s Harvard Carnival was a solid—though not overwhelming—success for the CEB. The board’s second and third large-scale events were bigger disappointments. The Harvard-Yale pep rally promised...
...further boon, says Michael G. Colantuono ’83—who was elected in October to be the chairman of the first session of the UC—was the sense of mission that the members of the new council felt...
...Cambodia certainly suffers from rampant corruption. Furthermore, there has been little transparency in the awarding of exploration contracts to foreign oil companies. Longtime Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has dismissed concerns that oil will be anything other than a huge boon for his country. But for the poor farmers watching the oxen decline to feast at the Royal Plowing Ceremony, the promise of oil revenues must feel completely irrelevant to their hand-to-mouth lives. What will they do if a drought does indeed strike this year, and their rice shoots wilt in the tropical sun? If the sacred cows...
...underwrite their welfare states, while small oil powers like Oman and Brunei found themselves catapulted out of subsistence living in a generation. Likewise, Alberta's burgeoning petroleum industry has transformed the province into a major driver of the Canadian economy. But oil is not always a boon. What if it fuels corruption rather than development, and creates the same combustible mix of great wealth, relative poverty, grievance and instability as it has in the Middle East? Economists often talk of the "curse of oil," pointing out that countries with resources such as oil often grow more slowly, more corruptly, less...