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...Olympic uniform - a plain blue ski jacket with "Thailand" in silver thread on the back - was embroidered for free by a Salt Lake company two days before the Games began. He skis on equipment he bought three years ago, and the Bulgarian biathlon team waxes his skis as a favor...
...first address the two main arguments offered in favor of House dining. Many would suggest that individual dining halls are an essential feature of House life; that dining daily in the company of neighbors and tutors is one of the hallmarks of the Harvard experience. This is all well and good, but I fail to see how this would become any less possible if, say, all the residents of Leverett, Dunster and Mather House were lumped into a single dining hall. You could still eat with all of the people you do now; it’s just that...
...other, stronger argument in favor of House dining is that it is extremely convenient. But Leverett Towers residents are about the same distance from their own dining hall as they are from Dunster or Mather House’s. Eliot and Kirkland House dining halls are already connected (if not yet in a student-accessible way), Lowell and Winthrop House residents can practically throw spoons at each other between their dining halls, and many Cabot House residents can stare out their windows into those of Pforzheimer House’s dining hall. Forcing everyone to trek to a single central...
...performance is the scandal in its wake. Many spectators and officials argued that the performance of Canada’s Jamie Sale and David Pelletier in the long program surpassed that of the Russians. The French judge claimed that the organization that governs French figure skating pressured her to favor the Russians despite an obvious technical error (Sikharvlidze stumbled on the landing of a double axel jump). Canadian Olympic officials promptly requested the international sports tribunal award a gold medal to the Canadian team and on Feb. 15 their request was met. The Canadians received a gold medal though...
Rohit Chopra ’04, a CUE member who spoke in favor of the proposal at a Faculty meeting earlier this month, said he was pleased, though not surprised, that the Faculty Council endorsed the measure...