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...Legal misunderstandings are one thing, but some registrars seem to make political decisions about whether students get to vote locally. In Virginia, for example, where the law stipulates that voters must establish "domicile" in their precincts to register but never defines that term, youth-voter advocates say it's no accident that registrars' rulings are often strictest in small towns, where students could potentially swing a local election. In 2004, after a voter drive registered 2,000 William and Mary students in Williamsburg - home to fewer than 12,000 residents - the local registrar announced that students no longer had domicile...
...topics ranging from social enterprise to agribusiness, attend keynote addresses by Gates and journalist Charlie Rose, and network at social events in the greater Boston area. Though the Business School held a celebration for current students on April 8 to commemorate the day when Harvard officially voted to establish the Business School, this weekend’s summit is in honor of the beginning of the school’s first academic year. For the alumni event, Quelch noted that the main objective will be to engage faculty with alumni on issues including leadership, globalization, and the financial markets...
...cash for equity, as famed investor Warren Buffett recently did with Goldman Sachs. Or the Feds could avoid carrying equity by lending money to financial institutions willing to buy up questionable bank assets at discounted rates. But first the Treasury seems ready to dip into its $700 billion to establish a reverse auction set-up to ensure that the government doesn't pay too high, or too low, a price for the distressed securities. The auction system will likely take at least a month...
...competent if mediocre squad that should have little trouble managing a victory in this one.Prediction: Princeton 21, Columbia 13YALE (1-1, 0-1 Ivy) VS. HOLY CROSS (1-2)If Ivy League football were a reality TV show, Yale would be calling up Harvard to establish an uneasy and secretive alliance aimed at getting Brown and Cornell kicked off the island. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, this game is every man for himself, and things aren’t about to get easier.Despite its losing record, Holy Cross is a tough non-conference foe that missed dropping Harvard by a point...
...Crimson must also establish a credible running game against a stout Leopard defense in order to free up the pass. So far this season, running backs sophomore Gino Gordon, and juniors Ben Jenkins and Cheng Ho have accumulated an average of only 106 total rushing yards per game. Expect more from Ho this weekend, who has played well in practice all week...