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...sitting down. If you get up in the middle of the day and move around, run around, I think it’s a good mental break and it gives you energy to do things in the evening.”Blattler has taken time off from track to focus on her primary concern, her schoolwork. Last summer she spent two months in Namibia doing field work for her concentration with the geology professor, Paul Hoffman.“It’s important to take breaks and keep things in perspective,” she said of her time...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blattler Vaults Over the Competition for Rhodes Scholarship | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...Zittrain, faculty co-director of the Berkman Center, also expressed support for his Stanford counterpart, saying that Lessig is passionate about politics. “[Lessig] has down the part that can be elusive to many candidates: a message,” Zittrain said. “His focus on what he calls corruption couldn’t be better timed, given public sentiment this election cycle.” Lessig, famous for bringing a 2003 case that unsuccessfully challenged prevailing U.S. copyright law, is the founder of Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that allows copyright holders to provide...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lessig Considers Run for Congress | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...Dominguez says that even though he and his committee were of the opinion that parts of HMI should go, their primary work is in broadening Harvard’s international focus. He points to one of his committee’s recent initiatives—a $1 million dollar project geared toward South Asia—as an example...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: With House Divided, HMI Spun Off | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...Siena had a really good last weekend against Presbyterian, so they look like they’re primed to have a good season,” tri-captain Nick La Fiura said. “My expectations are that if we just focus on ourselves and do all the little things right, we should be able to come out victorious.”The Saints are riding high from their 19-3 win in which 13 different players tallied scores. Having lost its first four games in 2007, the Crimson needs to set the tone for the season...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Youth Ready To Go | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...Thursday was a different matter. In the wake of a scandalous New York Times story suggesting a romantic fling with a lobbyist, McCain arrived at a Ford Focus car assembly plant with a decidedly tense grin plastered across his face. His campaign staff promptly separated anyone with a pen or a tape recorder from the candidate. "The McCain campaign decided who they wanted on the tour, and it's only photographers," a nice lady from Ford announced after a reporter spotted the candidate behind a car chassis and tried to approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John McCain's Very Bad Day | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

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