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...season as short as squash’s, every match counts. Even those matches that don’t affect the record may also be meaningful because of the experience that can be applied later. Harvard gained such experience over the weekend at the USSRA 5-Man Team Championships. The Crimson fielded two five-person teams in New Haven, Conn., where collegiate and national-level squads faced off in a three-day tournament. In the end, Harvard’s A team took fifth place, while the B team did not fare as well, suffering elimination after losing its first...
...Harvard women’s hockey team managed to maintain its perfect record with a 2-0 victory over No. 10 Connecticut (11-4-1, 4-2-1 Hockey East) Friday night at Bright Hockey Center. The Crimson dominated the shot count, 42-14, and controlled the tempo of the game. The squad, however, had to battle to earn its goals, which both came in the last 10 minutes of regulation. “We beat a good team and a great goaltender,” coach Katey Stone said. “We just found...
...potentially abusive immigration policies. Take Tokyo's practice of attracting foreign labor under so-called practical-training visas, which allow for three-year internships. In 2005, more than 55,000 Chinese entered Japan under this scheme. But last year alone, the program, by the government's own count, suffered from 4,639 cases of worker-rights abuse in which unscrupulous employers took advantage of uninformed immigrants. Hikaru Morita, a senior consultant for Temp Staff, a temp agency that began offering Japanese companies highly skilled Chinese office workers in 2004, acknowledges: "Chinese are seen as working harder than Japanese...
...likely course of action, Anderson said, would be the removal of the Willey-Snow ticket from the online ballot, so that no more votes could be cast in their favor before the close of voting at midday tomorrow. The votes already tallied in favor of the ticket would still count, he added...
...high level of overall satisfaction that Iowa Democrats have with their field of candidates. They are much more likely than Republican voters are to give high ratings to candidates who are not their first choice - which party leaders hope will lead to an enthusiasm advantage they can count on in November...