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...think that someone coming off surgery could play four games at shortstop would be unrealistic on our part—it would be setting [Vance] up to fail,” says assistant coach Tom Lo Ricco. “Once Vance’s arm is healthy, it’s as good as any. But [Stoeckel] may be doing a good enough job that we won’t have to move...
...boasted two appendices, and included two schematics detailing the present and future configurations for the sharing of textbook and coursepack information. Currently, the Coop, Harvard College Libraries, and crimsonreading.org—the UC’s own website that compares textbook prices among different book retailers—fail to collaborate in the collection of crucial textbook information, according to yesterday’s legislation. With the institution of the new system, however, the textbook information will go from professors and departments directly into the HCBIS system, where it will be processed and made accessible to the interested parties...
...White House released e-mails that backed up the charge that G.O.P. lawmakers had lobbied to have some of the prosecutors fired. The documents also proved the White House was far more involved in the dismissals than its spokesmen had previously acknowledged. In 2005, Miers--whom Bush would later fail, calamitously, to promote to the Supreme Court--suggested firing all 93 U.S. Attorneys. Deemed impractical, that idea was replaced by the more modest hit list of eight. "Circulate it to Karl's shop," read one DOJ missive...
...facts stand today, the events of 1915 fail to meet the definition of genocide as established by international law,” he wrote...
...This newspaper’s recent criticism of Harvard Management Company’s (HMC) indirect holdings in companies doing business with the Sudanese government is misinformed and is energy wasted by the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG) and The Crimson. Not only do the groups’ allegations fail to understand the possible investment choices given the HMC, but they do not even account for the actual holdings in Harvard’s endowment. The allegations only serve to demonstrate a lack of understanding of financial instruments, unnecessarily tarnish the University’s name, and keep...