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About this time every year, Harvard undergraduates begin weighing their options for the summer. For 400 of them, Spring Clean-Up with Harvard’s Dorm Crew constitutes the first venture into an intense season full of financial internships, community service, and even the occasional family vacation.
On the strength of those initiatives, Melfi was re-elected in 2006 by a 15 percentage point margin over his closest rival. Talk to the locals and you hear the rare sound of southerners pleased with the direction in which their town is headed. One morning in March, Pasquale Salandria...
Mermaid's Palace (Chicken Socks, $14.95). Make a mermaid's home, furnish it with the punch-out bed and sea creatures, then accessorize your mermaid with shells and pearls. A little too fiddly for kids under about 7, and clean-up's a cow, but pretty engrossing. B-
Of course, China's top leaders are keenly aware of this possibility. In an Oct. 15 speech during the Chinese Communist Party's congress, President Hu Jintao declared that fighting graft is critical to "the party and its very survival." But previous clean-up efforts have had little effect. Of...
Walter Oyarce has one of those jobs that no one wants. He heads a brigade that is clearing debris from last week's earthquake that devastated this city and several others on Peru's central coast. He directs bulldozers along narrow streets, scooping up the remains of homes built years...