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Alcohol can sometimes tear apart homes. But this weekend, it built them. At the Habitat for Humanity beer pong tournament in the PfoHo Bell Tower this Saturday, there was one principle—for every cup you make, God will send Stephen W. Piatelli ’10 to build a house for a poor person. FM paid the $10 entry fee and became one of the 32 teams in the tournie. Righteousness ensued. 9:30 p.m.—Game time. Our first opponents’ training and preparation? “I showered,” says Jessica...
With a teaspoon of heart, a splash of soul and a cup of aggression, the Harvard women’s water polo team began to find the right mixture this weekend at the Princeton Invitational in New Jersey, although at times the recipe fell short. Similar to play at last week’s Harvard Invitational, the Crimson (3-3) again split its games. The women’s squad dominated both of its day matches against Villanova on Saturday and George Washington yesterday. When the sun set, however, Harvard fell, 10-8, to Ivy rival Princeton Saturday night...
...extra revenue from an added day of alcohol sales is just a drop in the bucket. His opponents, however, insist it is significant. "At least it's a drop," says Georgia Senator Seth Harp, who introduced a bill proposing local referendums on Sunday sales. "Maybe it's even a cup full. But right now, I'd like to have a couple of cups full than nothing at all." (See what businesses are doing well despite the recession...
...most recent figures - Asia's grew by 4.74%. In India alone, 11.5 million new newspaper readers were added in 2008, and ad growth is chugging along at around 10% - less robust than over the past two years but still remarkably strong. "Many people can't enjoy their morning cup of tea without their newspaper," says Rahul Kansal, chief marketing officer for the Times of India, the world's most read English-language broadsheet and a major player among a whopping 64,998 newspapers registered across India...
What arrives on my computer screen as the New York Times may be journalism, but it ain't a newspaper. A newspaper is what I hold in my hand as I sit back in my easy chair, coffee cup nearby, and flip back and forth, ripping out articles, snipping coupons and scissoring photos and obits for a bulging scrapbook. Handheld electronic devices that scroll text may one day make that pleasure obsolete, but they are not newspapers and will never take their place. Paul Wesel, BOSTON...