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...hockey team took to the rink for their Feb. 8 game against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), something was noticeably different. Instead of donning their usual uniforms of crimson and white, the 24-member team sported jerseys in crimson’s rosy cousin: pink. This unusual flourish was part of the “Pink at the Rink” program, a campaign to raise money for the fight against breast cancer. Twelve women’s hockey teams in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) wore customized pink jerseys as part of the joint effort between the conference...
...environment where academics takes center stage, thesis writing and response papers can sometimes become the be-all and end-all of Harvard life. Relationships that could flourish in more favorable climates have the tendency to wither and die in the harsh Cambridge cold unless couples share plenty of quality time in the stacks—working together. On problem sets...
...yard freestyle. Mills earned her second individual victory of the day in the 200-yard backstroke, Pickard won the 500-yard freestyle in 5:01.95, and classmate Ali Slack took first in the 100-yard butterfly in 58.36. Co-captain Pangilinan finished her career at Blodgett Pool with a flourish, capturing first in her specialty breaststroke events. She led a senior sweep of the 100-yard breaststroke, touching the wall just in front of Colling and Slaight. The senior then swam to a 2:18.13 victory in the 200-yard breaststroke. In the dive portion of the event, Harvard...
...Spanish government has instead become a classic courtroom drama. On Thursday, a U.S. District court in Tampa, Floridam ruled that Odyssey Marine must reveal to Spain all the information it possesses that could help identify three historic shipwrecks, including the one Odyssey has code-named, with appropriate flourish, the Black Swan. The sunken ship, which Madrid suspects was Spanish, has been sharply disputed since April, when Odyssey filed claim to the wreckage and then hauled up - and moved to an undisclosed storage facility near its Tampa headquarters - 17 tons of silver coins and other treasure, which some experts have valued...
...left to decide, said Jonathan Prince, Edwards' top strategist, is what kind of change the country wants. "Are we going to have a philosophical version of change, or are we going to have a fight to bring about the change we really need?" Prince asked in a rhetorical flourish meant to contrast philosophical change (Obama) with the real thing (Edwards). Edwards' populist message has focused on stamping out the power of corporate greed in Washington, and he argues that Obama's "Kumbaya" inclusiveness cannot get that job done. "Asking lobbyists to simply give up their power by asking them...