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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...picking winners. There are so many different criteria proposed by experts that they often contradict each other in the end. So go with your gut. Pick teams you root for to win, within reason, while predicting teams you don’t like to lose earlier than expected. (Duke has lost to a lower seed every year since 2004 hahaha). Most importantly, be pumped. This is sports utopia...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mad (March) Love | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...first ever “Mr. Asian Sensation” beauty pageant. On the invitation, the AAA offers all those with a “bad case of that yellow fever” to see “Harvard’s most attractive boys of the Asian Persuasion duke it out for the honor of being the hottest Asian male on campus.” The winner will go on to compete in a Boston-wide pageant for hot Asian dudes held at Wellesley...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb | Title: The Asian Sensation | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...true, as McCain pointed out during his unsuccessful effort to delete all the earmarks in the spending bill, that earmark abuses have landed politicians like former Republican congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham in prison. Those abuses were especially rampant when congressmen were permitted to slip earmarks into legislation without taking responsibility - non-earmarked earmarks, in a way - but Obama helped spearhead an effort to eliminate that practice after Democrats took back Congress. It is also true that earmarks can be a sneaky way for boondoggles to bypass hearings, public comment periods, cost-benefit analyses and other forms of scrutiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Budget: Earmarks Aren't the Real Problem | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...important.” Fitzsimmons said that joint travel trips—attended by larger numbers of students, parents, and counselors—have proven more effective in attracting prospective applicants. He added that Harvard will continue to visit 127 cities with along with Georgetown, the University of Pennsylvania, Duke, and Stanford. When asked if he was worried that these cuts would hurt Harvard’s perception of accessibility, Fitzsimmons acknowledged that this is “always a concern,” but said that this was one of the purposes of joint recruiting trips. Teaming up with...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Admit Office Slashes Travel Budget | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...prove its victory over then-No. 5 Duke last weekend was no fluke, the Harvard men’s lacrosse team trounced Stony Brook, 12-4, in New York on Saturday in its second game of the season. “I thought it was a good win for us especially to follow up last week,” co-captain Nick Sapia said. “We got over our win pretty well and played well against a good Stony Brook team.” The No. 15/14 Crimson was led by sophomore attackman Dean Gibbons. Gibbons, who missed...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Continues to Roll With Win Over Seawolves | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

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