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...while the State Department helped coordinate Richardson's trip, the effort still stands in sharp contrast to the crusade that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is waging for the release of another FARC hostage, former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who has dual French-Colombian citizenship and has often been held alongside the Americans. Sarkozy has sent a humanitarian mission to Colombia to gain access to the ill and emaciated Betancourt, 46, who was abducted in 2002. She "is in danger of imminent death," Sarkozy warned in a French TV broadcast aired in Colombia. "You who lead the FARC, you have...
...captain Sally Stanton provided a one-two punch in the pole vault, both clearing 3.55 meters.On the men’s side, Yale’s roster proved to be too deep for the undersized Crimson squad.“Particularly when you’re in a dual meet, if you don’t have depth, then you’re asking athletes to cover a multitude of events and they get stretched thin,” Saretsky said.Though Harvard captured a sweep in the 500-meter run with co-captain Brian Holmquest, freshman Ryan Neely, and senior...
...varsity stroke George Kitovitz said. “I thought there was a positive response from the boat all week. Everybody just knuckled down a bit and thought of what they could do to get us a win.”Every Harvard-Princeton race, whether an April dual showdown or a Grand Final slugfest at Camden in June, carries with it a special intensity. Saturday’s meeting on the Charles was no different.Harvard overcame an early deficit off the start with a powerful final 1,500 meters, overcoming Princeton’s early six-to-eight seat...
...Series, “Afro-Asian Encounters”—co-hosted by the Asian American Association (AAA) and the Black Students Association (BSA)—explored the relationship between African and Asian Americans in the United States. Presiding as keynote speaker, Tang, who offered a dual perspective as a scholar of both Afro-Am Studies at University of Illinois in Chicago and Asian-American Studies at Harvard, said that Asian and African Americans have a common thread of struggle in American history. Tang said that the civil rights movement of the 1960s was the first...
...apartheid black economic empowerment projects on wine farms in her native South Africa.Dovey spent her early childhood shuttling back and forth to Australia with her family due to the death threats the South African police made against her father, an academic. She moved permanently to Australia (where she has dual citizenship) when she was 14. Although she had been back to South Africa on holidays and for thesis research during her junior summer, it was only after Harvard that Dovey returned to South Africa on a traveling fellowship to live. “It was a really difficult and quite...