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...Still, his arrival will give a major boost to the game in the U.S. - not in terms of the level of play, but its profile in the American mainstream. Beckham, together with his wife Victoria (a.k.a. Posh Spice) have between them graced the covers of more fashion magazines than anyone can remember. Their arrival in L.A., a natural home for the perennially bronzed and beautiful couple, gives Major League Soccer its first crossover celebrity, whose very presence in America is likely to give a significant bump to interest in and attendance at its games. Nor will Beckham be alone among...
...about boredatlamont.com, the tell-all forum that stormed onto the Harvard scene earlier this year. But during this reading period lull, the site has exploded into a disturbingly personal discussion that warrants attention from a much wider audience than those just looking for sex, comedy, or an ego boost...
...Women’s Center. But a female president’s firsthand knowledge of how to overcome such obstacles would make her the best-equipped candidate to lead Harvard in promoting gender equality. She would also provide a strong role model for students, and perhaps help to boost the number of tenured FAS women professors, who currently make up less than 19 percent of FAS’s tenured professors...
...Negroponte is the first to admit it's far from finished. He was also under orders to boost the number of spies and analysts by 50%, while increasing the number of American spooks who are competent in languages such as Arabic, Farsi and Korean. Negroponte told TIME last April that such recruitment was improving but could only go so fast. "We're beefing up in places where we hadn't been, where we'd allowed things to atrophy during the, after the end of the Cold War in Latin America and Africa," he said. But, he conceded, the progress...
...have more little girl fans at our games and they’ll know that there are more college basketball options for young girls in the Boston area.”For now, however, the BC victory gives the Crimson an indispensable—if improbable—boost going into the Ivy schedule, where Harvard is after its fourth Ivy title in six seasons. And if BC goes on to get an NCAA tournament berth and Harvard wins an Ivy League title, the Dec. 28th win over the Eagles could become the Crimson’s holiday gift that...