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...from the 2,200 of Lavietes Pavilion, and is a good bet to be chock full of maize-clad Michigan students.Harvard can try to neutralize that psychological edge, as Cusworth mentioned, by gaining confidence from Vermont’s stunning 14-point upset of No. 14 Boston College in Chestnut Hill on Monday. That same Catamounts squad was beaten by Harvard in last year’s opener.The Crimson has only met Michigan once before, falling 100-73 in 1970, and has not played a Big 10 school since losing to Penn State in 1975.—Staff writer...
...recent weeks, the Republicans unwrapped another moldy chestnut, advertisements proclaiming that Democrats will raise taxes. But that didn't seem to be working either because voters were focused on Iraq and Mark Foley. And so last week the Republicans unleashed a series of ads painting the Democrats as sex-crazed, homosexual-loving, porn-perusing-and in the case of the novelist and Virginia Senate candidate Jim Webb, porn-writing-perverts. It was vivid proof that the prospect of a hanging doesn't always concentrate the mind. Sometimes it leads to feral, piss-pants desperation...
NATHANIEL M. CAMPBELL Chestnut Hill, Mass...
...President was accompanied by First Lady Laura Bush on many of his major stops, which included a question-and-answer roundtable with foreign students at the Austrian National Library, which has 8,000 books printed before 1500. When one of the students repeated the chestnut that tough times never last but tough people do, the President provoke laughter by replying, "Do you mind if I use that sometime?" Asked about a typical day at the White House, the First Lady began by saying, "We get up about 5:30 a.m. The President gets up and goes in and gets...
...previous years.” He pointed to large attendance increases, including 70 students more for a trip to the Six Flags amusement park and a roughly 200-person jump for the annual Moonlight Cruise through Boston Harbor, as signs indicative of an all-around successful week. Theodore E. Chestnut ’06, another SCC member, echoed this pleasure with the way Senior Week 2006 played out. “It really seemed like there was something for everyone,” said Chestnut. “It seemed like people were really excited—there...