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...Gandhi as its most visible public face. Boyishly handsome and educated abroad, Gandhi has made it his mission to bring more young people into positions of power. He has pledged to hold elections for the leadership of the Congress youth wing within two years, and pushed the party to field more candidates under 40 years old. Gandhi is the ultimate symbol of dynastic politics - the son, grandson and great-grandson of Prime Ministers - but he sees no contradiction in also trying to push his party to change. "I'm actually in a position where I can do it," he said...
Coming back from a first-half deficit, the Crimson battled to a decisive 8-5 victory over Dartmouth on the Big Green’s Scully-Fahey Field. With the win, Harvard improved its record to 8-5, 3-3 Ivy, while moving Dartmouth’s standing back...
...private jail capable of holding 464 inmates. Convinced that it would provide steady employment for over 100 locals, as well as accompanying economic benefits, the residents financed it through the sale of revenue bonds and turned it over to a for-profit prison-management corporation. On a 40-acre field at the edge of town where pronghorn antelope once grazed, they built it. But nobody came...
...find this humiliating, comparing it to a walk of shame. But, faced with the prices of these events, they must continue to rely on SEF’s services. The stigma created by the current set-up works against SEF’s goals to even the playing field; a student’s financial means are a private and confidential matter, and the SEF should keep them that...
...grace managed to carry her pirouetting to the OFA’s Suzanne Farrell Dance Award. The prize—whose namesake was once the prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet—is given to the Harvard undergraduate who has demonstrated exemplary artistry in the field of dance. Chin’s impressive dancing is matched only by her skillful balancing of schoolwork with artistic pursuits, all the while maintaining infectious optimism and an upbeat, casual attitude. “She has an incredible, positive, practical, energetic way of being,” remarks James C. Fuller...