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...Amphitheatre on Saturday.The triumph over the Bulldogs (13-15, 8-6 Ivy) was especially sweet for the three seniors, as Harvard (14-14, 6-8 Ivy) had lost its last seven games in the rivalry—a drought that began with the senior class’s freshman campaign. The win was also the first for the team at Yale since the final game of the 1998-99 season and avenged an 87-66 beating at Lavietes Pavilion last month.“It feels great,” forward Harris said...
...Engineers’ victory on Saturday showed just how far the team has come. While Harvard outscored RPI, 17-1, in their last three meetings before this season, the revamped Engineers have handled their current campaign with renewed confidence and drive...
...Thursday, demanding that the administration save Harvard jobs. While the University has not officially announced employee layoffs, budgetary cutbacks are expected to result in job losses for workers employed through subcontractors. The protests in New York were organized in collaboration with the “No Layoffs” campaign organized by the Student Labor Action Movement on campus, according to Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09, an active member of SLAM and an inactive Crimson editorial writer. “[The campaign] was initiated by alumni in order to show solidarity and express that...
...many respects, Senator Chris Dodd is more powerful than ever on Capitol Hill these days. After enduring eight years in the political wilderness, the Connecticut Democrat is one of his ascendant party's senior statesmen, someone who endorsed Barack Obama early on in the presidential campaign and who hails from a solidly blue state. As chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Dodd has played a central role in shepherding much of Obama's economic agenda, from the second half of the bank bailout to the coming overhaul of regulations governing Wall Street. With his good friend Ted Kennedy sidelined with...
...Dodd's decision to move his family to Iowa in 2007 to lay the groundwork for what would end up a short-lived presidential campaign didn't endear him to his constituents either. "How can he identify himself as D-Conn. when he lives in Iowa?" asked a Connecticut Post editorial at the time. In the Quinnipiac poll, Dodd's approval ratings came in at a dismal 41%; that makes him even less popular than Joe Lieberman, the independent junior Senator who left the Democratic Party after losing his primary race and then crossed what was left of his party...