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...Rookie of the Week on Feb. 24, comes to Harvard from Manchester, England, and decided to take up the sport after seeing it played for the first time at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in her home city.The teammates are also quite similar in their reasons for attending Harvard. They cite the unique opportunity to play for assistant coach and former Olympian Ellen Estes Lee, who led the US to a silver and bronze medal in Sydney and Athens, respectively.In addition to the coaching staff, the rookies were deeply impressed with the team’s affability on their recruiting trips...
Since 1980, when it unsuccessfully attempted to become the state of New Columbia by convening its own constitutional convention, D.C. has persistently and vainly sought equal representation in Congress. Proponents cite the undemocratic nature of the present arrangement; opponents cite the unconstitutionality of the proposed measure. The effort has been rebuffed every time...
...School,” Kagan said in an interview last October. “I had a very fine experience, but I was always conscious that most students did not have that view.”Many of Kagan’s former classmates cite large class size as the driving factor behind the widespread grumbling among the student body. Compared to other top-tier schools such as Yale or Stanford—which have been characterized as having happier students—Harvard’s class size is roughly three times as large...
...have we caught the hug bug? Mental-health professionals cite everything from increasing population density to community spirit among millennials. Some theories point to 9/11 bringing the country together and to The Sopranos showing that tough guys can hug too. More recently, the hit show Entourage prompted fans to "hug it out, bitch" (a tagline now immortalized on T shirts). "I'd always welcome a hug," says Aaron Schutte, a senior at Iowa's Wartburg College and founder of the 2,500-member Facebook group I Love a Good...
...Kennedy apparently has no better grasp of law than he does of fact. He claims: “Violent resistance to the military occupation is fully legal under international law.” He does not cite any such law, because there is none that privileges violence when nonviolent options are available. (Perhaps he has in mind the first Protocol Additional to the Geneva Convention, which Palestinian terror groups routinely violate anyway...