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...baseball team’s record after its first series of the season—a four-game set this weekend against Jacksonville State in Jacksonville, Ala.—might elicit a heavy sigh from the viewer, indicating a resigned preparedness to watch the Crimson struggle through another difficult campaign.But Harvard’s 1-3 mark is slightly misleading. The Crimson’s production at the plate—which was virtually nonexistent during certain stretches last season—appears to be in top form, and a few isolated meltdowns overshadowed promising outings by several Harvard...
...policy is likely to be especially devastating to international students at Harvard and similar institutions. Many firms that hire extensively from the College, Law School, and Business School are heavily affected by the new restrictions. The onerous burden placed on the financial industry by the ARRA will make it difficult for employers to hire the best and brightest at a time of international crisis...
...open and that some students are simply not taking advantage of all available prospects. Perhaps some actors, directors, and technicians turn out only when a particular cultural group is putting on a show. At other times, students who are new to theater may be discouraged too easily by a difficult first audition...
...world, why the half-century-long dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir is not just a local problem, why education reform in the poor world is an issue of national security in the rich one - and why draining the swamps in which terrorism is spawned has been so difficult...
...member of the Protestant-backed Democratic Unionist Party, Sinn Fein's response to last night's murders is simply "weasel words." "Last week Sinn Fein made it as difficult as possible for the security forces to act," says William McCrea, who represents the South Antrim constituency where the shooting took place. "They have aided and abetted [dissident republicans] with their objections...