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Elections for student political positions were as crucial as ever this fall, as campus political leaders will try to make their party’s voice heard during a presidential election year. Silvestri will serve as HRC president until December...
...well, actually, many mornings, but only one as a reporter) with two full-time employees of The Crimson who make sure that the paper comes out every weekday. Brian Byrne and George Dioguraei are two of the least known people at 14 Plympton Street, but two of the most crucial. Most people don’t even realize that we have our own presses here, and these are the guys who print the pages and get the papers delivered on time. There are a lot of other interesting characters who operate behind the scenes of our bright red door. When...
...region is crucial not only for its resources, but also because political turmoil there could prove a much graver threat than rising energy prices. With an unhinged Georgia, the Caspian region could become an area of highly centralized terrorist activity. Indeed, the Russian government has already connected political insurgents in Chechnya to terrorist organizations in the Middle East. The fear in some circles is that a crisis in the Caspian states would make Georgia and its neighbor Chechnya very attractive homes for terrorist organizations looking for limited government interference, just as al Qaeda did with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Georgia...
...ever vacationed with bored and antsy teenagers, you know how crucial it is to keep them happy. Coming to your rescue, resorts and cruise lines have been adding to or sprucing up their teen programs faster than Justin Timberlake switches girlfriends. The Den at Sandy Lane on Barbados is now outfitted with computers that offer Internet access, PlayStation on a big-screen TV, pool tables and a jukebox filled with Pink and Avril Lavigne. Beaches Boscobel, a resort in Jamaica, has an arcade with Sega, Xbox and PlayStation, bonfires on the beach and a teens-only disco. After braving...
...company to regain its competitiveness now, Iwata's most notable action since taking the helm has been a series of price cuts, slashing the cost of GameCube consoles by as much as 50% worldwide. While those reductions have boosted market share and promise to move more units during the crucial holiday weeks, they may well have an adverse effect on Nintendo's profits unless game-software sales rise dramatically too, as hardware is a low-margin (if not loss-making) business even in the best of times...