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Pacquiao/Hatton Fight (9pm) - Head to one of the sports bars and hope one of them has this fight on along with the Celtics game. Manny Pacquiao, the pride of the Phillipines, is currently considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the game right now, after his victories over Oscar "Golden Boy" De La Hoya and arch rival Juan Manuel Marquez. The underdog in this fight, Ricky Hatton, pride of Britain, has endured legions of fans with his brawler-style and charisma in the ring. He's been a rising star in boxing, but needs to prove he's more...
...schmooze” or garner favors, but rather to be a familiar name or face when a position does become available. Similarly, employers will be looking for ways to be visible on campus next year even if they are not going to be hiring. Their hope is that, when they are able to hire, they will still be a familiar name on your list...
...We’re more than happy to support this new event that I hope becomes an annual part of Arts First,” Lentz says. “By raising awareness of the presence of art-making on campus, these students are making real contributions toward the goal of better integrating the arts at Harvard.”Extending beyond the university, the Student Art Show hopes to create a dynamic venue that will motivate students to become more involved with art in their everyday experiences. “I want them to be both impressed and inspired...
...Israel's strategy has been to keep Hamas-ruled Gaza poor while improving life in the West Bank, which is governed by Fatah and Abbas, in the hope that Palestinians - seeing the contrast - will desert Hamas, thus forcing it to capitulate to our demands. But the strategy has failed for three big reasons. One is Fatah, which is still widely considered incompetent and corrupt. Another is Israel, which hasn't given Abbas what politically he most needs: a halt to - or reversal of - West Bank settlement growth. The final reason is Hamas itself, which has an incentive to foil...
...appear on television, even as they banned the PLO. So if Hamas, in Israel's view, was moderate once, could it moderate itself again? The group's founding charter - which brims with anti-Semitism and rules out conceding any historically Palestinian land - doesn't exactly fill one with hope. On the other hand, Hamas' leader in Damascus, Khaled Mashaal, declared a couple of years ago, "I speak of a Palestinian and Arab demand for a state on 1967 borders. It is true that in reality there will be an entity or a state called Israel on the rest of Palestinian...