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...Mosquito Coast In return for oil, natural gas, timber, hydropower, gemstones, cash crops and a periodic table's worth of minerals, countries like China, India, Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea are propping up - and massively enriching - Burma's top brass. In the first nine months of 2008, foreign investment in Burma almost doubled year on year to nearly $1 billion, according to government figures that don't even take into account significant underground economic activity. Burma today is estimated to produce 90% of the world's rubies by value, 80% of its teak, and is home to one of Asia...
...racing against some very talented alumni on the Charles River.The Harvard women stood up admirably to the challenge of being the sole Crimson representative on the water, however, as they took home a fourth-place team finish in a field of sixteen teams from up and down the East Coast.“We were happy with our results this weekend,” sophomore Meghan Wareham said. “It was a great place to start and we now know what we have to work on as the season progresses.”Although the Crimson lineup...
...Noirmoutier”) at the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery. Instead, just a table, long and bare, stands on an empty beach. Without human presence, the table looks out of place and useless, as if its only purpose were to disrupt the stretched smoothness of the coast. As the widows trickle in and out of the next four photographs, they circle around the table, leaning on it and then looking away, suggesting perhaps that they do not know how to treat the remains of a domestic life...
...challenge of filling the void left by her fellow center.“[MacLaughlin] is a competitor,” Harvard coach Erik Farrar said. “There’s no quit in the woman.”Next week, the Crimson will visit the west coast for a six-game trip, including a match-up against No. 1 Stanford. Harvard returns home to Blodgett Pool on April 4. The team will have a chance for revenge against Hartwick, followed by a match-up against Brown.“I’m excited...
...Sunshine State may be too hot for the Crimson to handle. This weekend, the Harvard women’s tennis team (4-6) headed south to Miami and Ft. Myers, Fla. to compete against No. 52 Florida International and Florida Gulf Coast. The nationally-ranked Golden Panthers (11-5) and the Florida weather were too big of obstacles to overcome, and the Crimson dropped the match 6-1. But the next day, a rejuvenated Harvard heated up the courts, taking down the Eagles (1-11) in a decisive 6-1 victory. HARVARD 6, FLORIDA GULF COAST 1 With a night?...