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Hosting the first of its five home meets at Gordon Track on Saturday, the Crimson continued its solid start to the indoor track and field season on the backs of strong performances in the Harvard Open, the team’s largest home contest this season. “We have a great schedule this year,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. “These [home meets] should be important for us, and with the support of the Harvard community, they should be big meets, especially once February rolls around [for the Heptagonal Championships...
Ignatieff, who had served as a member of the Canadian parliament, replaces Stéphane Dion as party leader after Bob Rae, the only remaining candidate in the leadership race and close friend of Ignatieff, dropped out of the contest on Tuesday...
...Emile agrees, pointing out that all of the contestants attend university and arguing that brains are central to the event. In whittling down the field from 70 applicants to 15 contestants for each pageant, organizers "got a sense of what each girl is about" with questions that revealed their character and intellect, such as "Which Sex and the City character do you most relate to?" and "What is the best rumor you've heard about yourself?" Furthermore, Emile has said he will donate at least ?1,500 ($2,240) to British charities that support breast cancer research. But, according...
From that point on, the Crimson finished the game on a 21-12 run to tie it and send the contest to overtime...
...impossible choice. But when it comes to the leaders of modern times whom I never met, but would dearly have loved to, there's no contest. I'd give anything to have sat down with a tiny - barely 5 feet tall - bridge-playing chain smoker who used the spittoon liberally and had a weakness for croissants. And I'd ask him: Did you have any idea what you were doing...