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...typically guard the right side thinking that most people will innately go there, so we’ve focused a lot of our plays on going left.”While many factors seem to contribute to the junior’s strong season, they all point to a common conclusion—Keating is poised to continue shining for the rest of her Harvard career.“She’s a confident player,” Goodman-Bacon says. “She came in confident and it has only grown.”But while things...
...period comes to a close next month, and only one public meeting has been held thus far about the most recent plan—Houghton and other neighborhood activists say their concerns about proposed housing density, open spaces, transportation, and retail opportunities can wait no longer. And as is common during planning discussions in Allston, blame quickly shifted to Harvard as well. “Harvard University has been completely recalcitrant,” said local resident Brent Whelan. Like some other critics of the current plan, he said the proposal’s faults could be alleviated...
...book was written in the early stages of the 2008 election, and you said you were optimistic about the time. In light of Barack Obama's election, do you see any hope for change in politics? When Obama went on to get elected, the most common question I had was whether things would get all better because of Obama. Yes, it was a hopeful gesture. But the economy crashed. He's had a very difficult first couple of months in office. He's in real trouble with his health-care policy, all of which points to the fact that there...
...unrepentant as he said goodbye to the force, noting that crime dropped drastically across Kenya during his time as chief of police. While that may be true, it is still generally seen as unsafe to go out after dark, and carjackings and break-ins are common. "Unfortunately, during my tenure, vilification of police became a national pastime," he said at a ceremony marking his departure. "Police work is not a public-relations exercise. You will make many happy and unhappy, but I take pride in what I have done...
...dolphin hunts. "I don't think it's a big topic here," he says. "As long as [their killing] is humane, dolphins are like other animals to us." The most humane technique, according to Nishimura, would be to use high-tech machines to minimize the animals' suffering. The most common hunting methods, however, are oikomi, a process illustrated in the film in which fishermen chase dolphins into shallow water and surround them with a net, and tsukimbo, in which dolphins are killed individually by harpoon. Taiji is the only place in Japan to recently practice oikomi...