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This season marks Harvard's initial foray into the Great Freshman Experiment. And under Coach Tim Murphy, the best players play. Right now, seven freshmen happen to merit that honor...
...added another component to TIME Online: TIME Daily, the first foray into daily journalism in our 71-year history. Compiled by editor Jim Kinsella and his staff -- Robertson Barrett, Kathleen Hayden, Waits May and Steve Mitra -- TIME Daily offers a summary of top news, often shaped with special insights from TIME correspondents around the world. The daily service has already scored some coups: it was the first media source to report that emissaries from Fidel Castro were meeting with Cuban exiles in Madrid to broker a deal between the U.S. and Havana on Cuban refugees...
...their salaries in U.S. currency can often afford to buy foreign cars, rent big houses, take trips abroad and eat at dollars-only restaurants. Brought up to believe in the egalitarianism of Cuban socialism, some try to share, but they are often rebuffed by friends offended by their foray into capitalism. "It's difficult when I have $20 in my pocket and my friends have 20 pesos," admits Gutierrez...
Chevron's foray into Kazakhstan is part of the biggest global oil rush since energy explorers moved into the Middle East after World War II. Starting with the end of the cold war a few years ago, immense stretches of oil and gas lands -- from the Arctic Circle to China's Tarim Basin to the waters off Vietnam -- have opened up to multinational firms as host countries strive to develop their resources and earn hard currency...
...explanations seem more cogent. As Mark Gauthier, a chaplain for the United Ministry at Harvard, presciently noted in September, "Harvard has been around for 350 years. This modern art stuff is trendy--it's a nineties thing and it's going to be out." Well, at least HRE's foray into modern art is going to be out--out of Holyoke Center, anyway...