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Just 245 days after the end of its disappointing 2007-08 season, the Harvard men’s basketball team is back and ready to begin again with a clean slate. The Crimson opens its campaign today on the road against New Hampshire.Expectations and enthusiasm are high entering the first game of the year, but even before the games begin, Harvard has taken some blows, as injuries have stricken several of its most experienced players. The senior trifecta of captain and guard Andrew Pusar, forward Evan Harris, and guard Drew Housman has picked up knocks in the past few weeks...
...what lingers after you finish reading The Big Necessity is characters like Champaben, an outcast woman from the untouchable Dalit caste in India whose job is to clean the country's dry, filthy latrines. She regularly contracts dysentery, giardiasis and brain fever from her exposure to human waste. No one deserves that fate, and as George makes clear, the very least we can do for every person on this planet is to give them a place...
Environmental concerns dominated discussion at last night’s Cambridge City Council meeting. If all goes as planned, solar power will soon be beaming in to Cambridge’s Andrew Peabody School, City Manager Robert W. Healy said at the meeting. The city is seeking a Clean Energy Choice grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, a state agency that promotes development of green energy. The grants, which will be awarded next May, allot a minimum of $100,000 for renewable energy and energy efficiency measures in municipal buildings that serve low income residents. The Peabody school qualifies...
...respect, the stalemate is a bit reminiscent of the economic crisis Franklin D. Roosevelt faced in 1932 as President-elect, says Brookings Institution historian Stephen Hess. While Roosevelt could have done more to step in, he chose to wait to take office and exercise his full power - making a clean break and effectively laying all the blame on the previous Administration of Herbert Hoover. As Jonathan Alter writes in his book The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, "Roosevelt wanted to make sure that the people remembered that it was Republicans who had forgotten their...
...your romance on, you will not go hungry. Oysters are a well-known aphrodisiac - their stimulative properties may or may not be legit, but we figured it never hurts to try - so we decided to eat as many as humanly possible. We started with a plate of clean, raw oysters at Dickie Brennan's Bourbon House (144 Bourbon Street; 504-522-0111). Then my man discovered that you could also get oysters with caviar on top, so we ordered a half-dozen of those too, paired with a crisp, cold glass of pinot grigio. I've never enjoyed a meal...