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...Academy of Sciences' Gontmakher titled NOVOCHERKASSK - 2009. The headline was a reference to spontaneous strikes by workers in a Russian town in 1962 that ended in bloodshed when troops were called in and opened fire: at least 20 people were killed and three dozen wounded. In his article, Gontmakher drew some parallels between the social tensions back then and the deteriorating economy today. Within days, the newspaper received an official warning from the Kremlin's media watchdog: Run any more such pieces, Vedomosti was told, and you face criminal charges under a law against inciting extremism...
...After playing even for most of the second half, Harvard trailed, 60-53, with one minute remaining in regulation. Senior guard Drew Housman decided to take the game into his own hands. After dribbling out much of the shot clock, Housman drained a long three-pointer that brought the Crimson within four and got the crowd on its feet...
...Crimson also got more than it expected out of five standout players. Junior Jeremy Lin, senior Drew Housman, and the triumvirate of star freshmen—Boehm, Wright, and Kenyi—played every nail-biting minute of overtime...
...Asked by a professor during yesterday’s meeting to comment on the status of the Strategic Infrastructure Fund—a 0.5 percent annual levy on the endowment that has traditionally funded Allston development—University President Drew G. Faust suggested that the money could be put towards other projects in present circumstances...
...Last June, University President Drew G. Faust rose in front of Memorial Hall to give her first address at commencement, the University’s most symbolically significant ceremony of the year. The historian chose in this historical moment not to make an abstract address about the location of Harvard and its students in the world, but instead to present a political case for the tax-exempt status of the endowment. It was, all told, an eloquent and well-argued speech, drawing a clever equivalence between the strength of our ledger books and the munificence of our deeds...