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...Berlusconi's judicial woes were reignited when Italy's highest court ruled unconstitutional the law he'd pushed through Parliament to grant himself immunity from prosecution while in office. The high-point of his leadership in 2009 - his prompt response to the tragic earthquake near the city of L'Aquila - was not the sort of thing to gloat about. (But he did anyway...
...fair famously features bullfights but just six minutes before the toreros were to start, it was cancelled. The economic impact of such cancellations will mount as the panic - and the potential declaration of a pandemic - takes hold. Aguascalientes, for example, counts this time of the year as the high-point of its business calendar. The fair provides employment for a lot of people. (See the story about how the vaccine the CDC has prepared for swine...
...wanted to show the different styles of Asian street dancing and clothes,” said Moonlit M. Wang ’10, the creative director of Street Culture. During this segment, the models alternated between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean street dance styles. In a high-point of the performance, the audience erupted in applause during a mock dance-off between male and female models. The student designs explored both traditional and avant-garde styles. Xinran Yuan ’10 used puffy textured fabrics which amplified her models’ figures. Helen Tsim ’10 created long...
...honorable mention in the event.Rathgeber’s individual successes this season led to seven All-Ivy League First Team selections. Rathgeber also achieved three celebrated personal honors towards the end of the season—he received the Harold Ulen Award for an athlete at a career high-point and Philip Moriarty Award for most outstanding athlete at the EISL Championships, and was recently selected to the Academic All-American First Team.“That’s a remarkable feat to be able to do what he’s done academically and athletically...
...claimed numerous individual awards along with its team victory. Multiple swimmers completed races in record-breaking times and notched automatic and provisional bids to the NCAA Championships. Meanwhile, co-captain Geoff Rathgeber was honored with both the Philip Moriarty and Harold Ulen Awards for most outstanding athlete and career high-point scorer, respectively. These results come as no surprise when the talents of individual swimmers and divers and the depth of the team are taken into consideration. In the NCAA Division I swimming rankings, Harvard boasted at least one athlete in the top 100 of every event, with each...