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...here, and your friends are here, it creates a match-like atmosphere so it’s more competitive.” Harvard came into the match with no current member of its roster ever having lost to Cornell, and that streak continued Saturday. No Crimson player struggled to dispatch her competition, and Harvard’s top three—freshman No. 1 Lily Lorentzen, junior No. 2 Kyla Grigg, and sophomore No. 3 Supriya Balsekar—all swept their Big Red opponents with little difficulty. Junior No. 5 Audrey Duboc had her customary vocal cheering section...
...children to school, what house to live in - on Zamora's monthly earnings "on the other side." In migrants' countries of origin, escalating desires - for things like better education and bigger homes - help drive the remittances. Ironically, economists calculate that the poorer the migrants are, the more money they dispatch. "There is enormous social pressure to send money home," says Khalid Koser, a geography professor at University College London, who in October co-authored a report for the Global Commission on International Migration in Geneva, which researches governments' immigration policies. Koser found that many migrants scrape by in first-world...
...including chaos in Iraq and the indictment of a close aide, were compounded by "flank winds" of tawdry headlines about Republicans in Congress. Kilgore, with his light schedule and mountain twang, was friendly and earnest, but short on what consultants call "candidate skills." A column in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Sunday said his voice sounded "like Gomer Pyle on helium." The Associated Press called the race for Kaine at 9:06 p.m. ET, just two hours after the polls closed. Kilgore conceded about 90 minutes later, saying: "At the end of the day, I take heart in what...
...When a UNICEF team decided to dispatch a flotilla of 11 boats up the Indus, loaded with relief supplies, I jumped at the chance to sail into these forbidden valleys. Even though the tribes had requested assistance, UNICEF project leader Tamur Mueenuddin, a tireless Pakistani doctor, wasn't sure what sort of reception his team would get. What little money Kala Dhaka's tribesmen scrape together, usually from selling opium, is spent on guns. Scenes flashed through my mind from the film Deliverance, in which Burt Reynolds and his rafting buddies are picked off by vengeful hillbillies...
...comparative advantage is in education. Here in Cambridge, Kennedy School professors are training government officials in emergency-management techniques, and Design School students have drawn blueprints for tsunami-resistant houses. Clearly, it would not be in the global interest for Harvard to close up shop and dispatch its faculty to disaster sites. But if Harvard does choose to participate in more direct charitable giving, then administrators should look beyond the stories that dominate the nightly news. If, for example, Harvard were to announce tomorrow that it will match affiliates’ donations to famine relief in Malawi, such a bold...