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...PBHA president, John B. King ’96, garnered much praise by founding and sustaining Roxbury Prep, a charter school in the Mission Hill area...
...beginning of a final carve-up of the company. Yukos is trying to stop the forced sale, which violates Russian statutes stipulating that non-core assets be sold first in the event of tax claims. The firm has launched legal proceedings against the Kremlin under an international energy charter and says it will sue the winner of the Dec. 19 bidding. "This has nothing to do with taxes and everything to do with expropriation," argues Robert Amsterdam, a Toronto-based lawyer for Khodorkovsky...
...started. Robin Scott Lyons, France The best defense of French is not "a strong offense" but a more ethical way of dealing with its own minority languages, such as Breton, a Celtic language akin to Welsh that is desperately struggling for survival. France persistently refuses to ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, thus combating at home a cultural diversity that it eloquently advocates for the rest of the world. How hypocritical! Marcel Texier Maurepas, France
...there was Thomas, scout team all-star and defense charter extraordinaire. Until Harvard’s 35-0 drubbing of Holy Cross in the 2004 opener, the only snaps Thomas had seen were from the press...
From play-charter to play-maker, Thomas has emerged as one of the top linebackers in the league. After a 12-tackle, two-sack performance in Harvard’s 39-14 demolition of Princeton, Thomas was named Ivy defensive player of the week. His impressive junior season has propelled Harvard’s forgotten defense to second in the Ivies in scoring defense. That same unit has forced 21 turnovers, good for first in the league. And since surrendering 24 points to Cornell, the Crimson defense has allowed an average of 10 points per game over the last five...