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...divided history. Adversity also plagued the build-up to the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. Eight months before the start of the tournament, a massive earthquake killed 10,000 people in Mexico City and caused the media to speculate about the possibility of moving the event elsewhere. But Mexico held on to the tournament and doggedly rebuilt the capital in order to stage what many consider to be one of the greatest World Cups of all time. (Read: "Joburg Gets It Together...
Michael Zhang ’12 won a concurrent special election for Lowell House UC representation. That election was held following the expulsion of former Lowell representative Kevin F. Burke...
...meeting with Harvard coach Tommy Amaker in May will be held to “reevaluate” his situation for next season, he said...
Students from the College, Kennedy School, and Law School held signs, chanted, and brandished coat hangers to warn of dangerous alternatives that women might be forced to pursue under the law, which the House passed on Nov. 7. The Senate is still considering its version of health-care reform...
What misconceptions do we have about our differences? Crime rates are a good example. The U.S. murder rate is always held up as exemplifying the contrast across the Atlantic. There's no getting around the fact that the murder rate in America is much higher than in European countries. The implication is that every other crime is equally high, but I knew that was simply not the case. For example, [the U.S. has] comparatively low rates of sexual assault...