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...Harvard recipient, hails from Edinburgh, Texas, and graduated last June with an A.B. in applied mathematics and a master’s in statistics. According to his biography on the American Web site for the Rhodes Trust, Sarkar wrote a prize-winning thesis on homeless children and intends to focus his study at Oxford on social issues. He could not be reached for comment yesterday afternoon. The awardees were announced over the weekend. A number of the countries where Rhodes Scholarships are awarded had not yet listed winners on their Web sites as of last night. —Staff...
Environmental progress is being made in China, but perhaps not as fast as the media would like. Now may be the opportune time—with the focus on Beijing 2008—to highlight some of China’s developmental problems, but that does not mean the media can portray all of China as a giant wasteland in the name of instigating change...
While most of the Harvard community focused on the happenings in New Haven this weekend, the Crimson men’s swimming and diving team made a statement of its own in defeating league foe Columbia, 195-105. Harvard now heads into the Thanksgiving holiday with a perfect 3-0 record. Last week, the Crimson snagged league victories over Cornell and Dartmouth by using its depth. Harvard won fewer events than the Big Red, but it managed to gain the edge in points by grabbing several second and third places. This weekend, however, the Crimson swimmers touched the wall first...
...With such a hostile crowd, the Crimson’s home-ice advantage didn’t seem like much. But Harvard had anticipated the lack of support for the Crimson and didn’t lose momentum despite its depleted student section. “We want to focus on what we’re going to do be successful, not what the outside is going to be like,” said assistant coach Sean McCann ’94. “We just said, ‘Listen. This is our building, we gotta play hard...
...first of his two goals against Richter from point-blank range after he received a pass from Peter Bogdanich.And from there, the momentum swung entirely in favor of the Raiders.Still, with such a strong start this season, the Crimson players know that this loss can build resilience and strengthen focus. “At this point in the season, you can look at it a lot of different ways,” Taylor said. “We have a lot of games left, and if we can take this and learn from it and rebound against [Boston University...