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That will remain the case as long as stockpile sales remain, flooding the market with ivory and weakening what was once a powerful moral prohibition against the trade. It doesn't help that in 2007 CITES gave South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe permission to sell 110 tons of stockpiled ivory to China and Japan. The E.U. allowed that sale on the condition that there would be a nine-year moratorium on future stockpile sales, but CITES applied that ban only to those four countries - leaving Tanzania and Zambia open to request their own sales. "We keep moving the goalposts...
...transformed into a giant study hall with students scrambling to finish p-sets. Brain break offerings keep students happy, and Charles W. Eliot—the namesake of the House who graduated from the College in 1853—is perched over them, ready to help. During good weather, the dining hall staff will prepare a barbecue-type meal in the courtyard, complete with music and games. Sunday brunch is accompanied by live music performances put on by students...
...center wanted to collaborate with the Commonwealth Journal, a radio program on WUMB 91.9, to help draw on Boston’s intellectual wealth, said Susan Hartnett, the center’s executive director...
...Crimson battled back in the third set, going on an 8-4 run with the help of a kill from Kuld. Harvard held the lead temporarily, but the team lost momentum when it miscommunicated on a play. Co-captain Gil Weintraub set the ball for a spike, but nobody was there to hit it, as the players watched the ball fall to the ground...
Thankfully, Harvard takes a less manic (and emotionally scarring) approach to their senior gift videos than Yale did. A group of friendly-looking seniors rattle off some of the things we'd lose without the senior gift fund—did you know senior donations help fund financial aid, energy conservation research, free WiFi, study abroad programs, exercise machines with TVs at the MAC, the New College Theatre, and many wonderful features of the Queen’s Head Pub (like 25-cent wings)? Well...