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...after assuming personal responsibility for a gas blast in Chongqing last December; in Beijing. The explosion, which released a toxic cloud of hydrogen sulfide that killed 243 people and forced the evacuation of 60,000 villagers, was blamed on insufficient use of drilling fluids and on the removal of crucial safety equipment. Ma, whose rank in the Chinese bureaucracy was equivalent to a minister in the central government, offered to quit several times before his resignation was accepted by the State Council, China's Cabinet...
Nevertheless, the 1-3 weekend drops Harvard to a second-place tie with the Bulldogs in the Red Rolfe division of the Ivy League, with two weekends of crucial division play remaining. Dartmouth, which took three games from Brown this weekend, is in first with a record...
Ever since the Second World War, Australia has followed the United States—often blindly—into many of America’s crucial ideological battles in the hope of securing a friendship and alliance. Joining the American military presence in Korea, Vietnam and twice in Iraq ensured a bond that neither of Australia’s political parties wanted to forego. Now, for the first time in some 50 years, Latham dared to challenge Australia’s unspoken commitment to its favorite ally...
...soon as those crucial organizational decisions are made, the review can enter a new phase of concrete legislation that will be put to a faculty vote...
...rather than create new fans, the group has provided a much-needed means of transport to road events—organizing buses to otherwise inaccessible Hanover for a crucial women’s hockey game against Dartmouth among them—and was a source of tickets for the sold-out Harvard-Cornell men’s hockey game. These activities, however, do little to generate a buzz surrounding the teams in the first place, meaning that the more than $4,800 provided in the last semester by the Undergraduate Council goes largely to promoting a small, mostly self-contained...