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...taken its toll.“[Gibbons] was nervous his first few games,” tri-captain Nick La Fiura explains. “He started right away and that puts lots of pressure on a young guy, but he’s developed into a great contributor.”Although it did not take Gibbons long to get his name on the stat sheet, logging a goal and an assist in his second game, his numbers this season certainly speak to vast improvement.After 10 games, the rookie boasts the team’s second-highest point total...
...This year, six of the 50 programs come from Massachusetts. These efforts include the City of Boston’s Foreclosure Intervention Initiative and Suffolk County’s Teen Prostitution Prevention Project. Ruston F. Lodi, director of public affairs at the Massachusetts Housing Partnership and a contributor to the MassDocs project, described the program as “an example of government being efficient.” The initiative promotes affordable housing in Massachusetts by creating one set of loan documents. The next round of finalists will be announced on June 3, and the winners, who will receive...
...Britain, the second largest contributor of troops to Afghanistan, proposed a new initiative at the summit: A so-called trust fund to encourage countries that are not contributing troops to instead donate money and equipment to NATO operations. On Thursday, Prime Minister Brown revealed that 18 new helicopters and 8 nations had declared themselves ready to contribute to the fund. "This will become known as the burden-sharing summit," said Brown. That, at least, should be a name delegates can agree...
Malcolm Gladwell, a contributor to The New Yorker and an avowed hater of the Ivy League, argued for abolishment to raucous applause. Aligning the Ivy League with the Bush administration’s abhorrent foreign policy, Gladwell impugned Harvard, Princeton, and Yale as an “axis of evil.” His recommendation for dealing with these “fetishized institutions of elitism that stifle social mobility and hurt the less fortunate”? Abolish the Ivy League wholesale, and appropriate their financial assets to purchase his homeland of Canada...
...five-year war with no foreseeable end, MIT’s Army ROTC officials say that Harvard’s representation in the battalion has not suffered a downturn. The University currently supplies 17 of the Paul Revere battalion’s 62 members, with the next largest contributor, MIT, accounting for 13, according to battalion officials...