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European Heroes, you featured Amsterdam mayor Job Cohen [Oct. 10]. That is too much praise for a man who is mainly known for his prevarication and tardy approach to very real problems that affect this city. It is important to realize that in Holland, mayors are appointed by the crown. The good citizens of Amsterdam are thus not allowed to vote for their first citizen, and they instead got a refugee from the political establishment who needed a place to hide. After filmmaker Theo van Gogh was assassinated, it took Cohen hours to make his first move. Cohen's career...
...time...In all honesty it changes some of our goals, but our focus is still to find a way to win this week.”The Crimson is technically not eliminated from the Ivy chase, but history isn’t on its side. The last league crown to go to a two-loss team was 23 years ago in 1982. That year, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Penn shared the title. PRACTICE MAKES PERFECTMurphy admitted this week that junior running back Clifton Dawson had been battling an assortment of ailments that kept him out of practice throughout much...
Readers will find much that is stylistically familiar in Miss Manners' Basic Training: Communication (Crown; 179 pages; $15)--referring to herself in the third person, often amusing in a column but overly arch at book length, and using the locution Gentle Reader. The text is largely a response to letters Martin has allegedly received. It starts off jauntily enough with what Miss Manners likes about life on the Internet: "Cyberspace is like space on the open seas, free of some constraints that should be observed on land." Watch out, though. Already gentility is rearing its well-coiffed head...
...Gordon T. Kraft-Todd ’07, a Quad resident who was last year crowned “Mr. Harvard,” also appeared in his signature diaper and crown. He shouted slogans with the rest of the QUAD members and waved his trophy in the chilly autumn...
...throughout the course of the weekend’s competition, including victories in three of the final four races. In other weekend action, Harvard fell to a 13th-place finish out of 22 schools at the Yale Women’s Intersectional in New Haven. Host Yale took the crown with a score of 84, finishing 95 points better than the Crimson’s mark of 179. While Harvard’s A-division squad managed only a 16th-place finish, the B-division did manage to climb into ninth with a total score of 70 points. Persistent, strong...