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...aware of the special elections,” Greenfield said. HOUSEKEEPING Voith’s resignation early last Monday opened up a second representative seat in Winthrop House, shortly before polls opened. Rather than hold a later election for Winthrop, the Election Commission decided to fill the extra opening with the candidate who received the second highest number of votes in the House. The change allowed second-place finisher Jenny A. Skelton ’08 to join Raymond L. Palmer ’07 in the Winthrop winners’ circle. A total of 628 students in Adams, Currier...
...year are barely enough to replace the troops filing out the gates. Despite efforts to build it up, the 52,000-strong adf is no bigger than it was in 2002; last year it grew by just 70 members. Yet over the next decade the military must find an extra 2,500 troops. "The adf can't do the things we need it to do," says Neil James, head of the Australia Defence Association, a national-security lobby group. "There's a limit to how small you can make the defense force, and we've reached...
...however, proved a worthy adversary, matching the Crimson’s intensity in a contest that would not be decided until the final seconds.With the clock dwindling late in the third period and Harvard trailing 4-2, Stone pulled the goaltender in favor of an extra attacker. Harvard scored a goal with 20 seconds left in the game. Off a faceoff, Jenny Brine deflected a pass from Kati Vaughn past Big Red goalie Beth Baronick, preserving a glimmer of hope for the Crimson. But the game-tying goal eluded Harvard, ending the game, 4-3, and delivering the team...
...second friend was told the same thing by her doctor. It was very comforting--and very untrue. Another friend's doctor, meanwhile, informed her that all childrens' flu shots contain thimerosal. Also not true. In reality, a less prevalent thimerosal-free version can be had for a few extra bucks...
...Though Li has rarely returned to her homeland since her departure a decade ago, the best stories in this volume, written in her flawlessly pure and limpid prose, fully capture China's wrenching social changes. In "Extra," Granny Lin finds she has been "honorably retired" from her state-owned garment factory?which means the plant has gone bankrupt and Lin won't be getting her pension. She's lucky enough to find a new job as a maid at one of the posh new private schools sprouting outside Beijing, but it's not long before Lin discovers...