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...three-month-old strike has sidelined more than 12,000 writers - writers of prime-time shows you can't live without, movies you haven't heard of yet and soap operas you're pretty sure are recycling story lines from 10 years ago. But it's the late-night hosts who have been in the most visible, and delicate, position. Leno and Letterman are both former stand-up comics and Guild members themselves, who supported their fellow union members for weeks, refusing to do their shows until the prospect of laying off all their nonstriking staff members forced them into...
...which was part of laying the groundwork for a culture in which comedians turned TV hosts help set the national agenda and have would-be Presidents as guests. Letterman and Leno may look more like management than labor these days - more Mitzi Shore than strikers. But they haven't forgotten the old grievances. They know all the lines...
Following a two-month break between tournaments, the Harvard fencing team started the second half of its season with mixed results, as both the men and women ended the weekend 2-1 at the first half of the Ivy League tournament in New Haven, Conn. Each squad finished off Yale and Princeton in convincing fashion, the men by a score of 18-9 in both matches, the women by a score of 17-10 in each. It was pesky Penn that kept the teams from perfection, defeating the men, 16-11, and the women, 14-13. Facing three teams...
...swim team (6-1, 6-1 Ivy) saw its streak of five dual-meet wins come to an end this weekend, as it fell to Princeton (7-0, 6-0), 210-107, but defeated Yale (5-3, 4-3), 198.5-118.5, at the annual HYP meet in New Haven, CT.Though swimmers from all three teams compete together, the meet consists of dual-meets between Harvard and Yale, Harvard and Princeton, and Yale and Princeton. “It’s funny that there is added pressure,” said senior diver Samantha Papadakis of the HYP meet format...
...well under 1 per million, compared to rates of more than 20 per million in places such as Spain, the U.S. and France. The group's head Dr Sunil Shroff rejects the idea that Indian culture or religion is behind the low donation rates. "The reason is we haven't got our act together basically," he says. "The infrastructure is not there. The general perception is lacking...