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...among 15 total teams. With Dartmouth and Middlebury most often landing the first and second spots, respectively, Harvard finished behind eighth-place St. Lawrence University and ahead of St. Michael’s College in the 10th position. On the Alpine side, second-year coach Mitchell noticed a great deal of steady improvements from week to week between carnivals. “The progress has been tremendous,” Mitchell said. “The interest that we’re getting from up and coming athletes had been really good. On the whole, the team that we have...
...Notwithstanding Harvard’s shady dealings in the original acquisition of Allston property during the nineties, the University led by President Drew G. Faust has been extremely receptive to the community’s needs and desires. In a land-swap deal with the owners of the Charlesview apartments, a low-income housing complex that sits on a plot of land central to the development project, Harvard has demonstrated that it had come full circle in its dealing with Allston residents—as part of the deal, Harvard agreed to erect highly subsidized replacement housing units nearby...
...home games we cover, there’s a trip down the ever-dangerous Muller Hill Road, but professional journalists generally have much more trying lives than student-journalists do.But it is indeed that closeness of access and the connection to our subjects that creates the discomfort we must deal with. When we step into the press box, we must shed our Harvard gear and adopt a stance of neutrality. It doesn’t matter if the volleyball team just clinched the Ivy League, if the hockey team just forced overtime in the Beanpot championship game, or if Clifton...
...while state coffers remain full, the economy is troubled. A coalition of farmers and farm owners has staged disruptive demonstrations against the President and her policies for 80 days now, garnering a large degree of public support, fueled largely by frustration at the government's inability to deal with inflation. Says Ricardo Gomez, a farmer from the central province of Cordoba: "Cristina projected the promise that she could continue to provide the economic bonanza while distancing herself from Kirchner's authoritarian streak, but she turned out to be even tougher than her husband." Her government has called the farmers "oligarchs...
...crisis began." While the public mood began to shift at the end of her husband's tenure, Berensztein says several factors gave it impetus after she took office: "inflation and the government's state of denial regarding it, her confrontational attitude during the farm crisis and her [failure] to deal with corruption." According to Poliarquia, Cristina's approval has dropped from 51% when she assumed office six months ago to 21% today. The government says Poliarquia's polls and similar ones showing a downturn are "fake...