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...freshman class, and three first-year players have made an impact already. Libero Katherine Kocurek has filled the hole created by the graduation of Elizabeth Blotky ’06, leading a defense that ranks second in the Ivy League in digs per game. Right-side hitter Chelsea Ono Horn has brought power to the outside of the Harvard attack, supplementing junior co-captain Suzie Trimble and senior Katie Turley-Molony down the middle. And setter Lily Durwood has helped stabilize the Crimson’s passing game, taking turns in the rotation with senior Sarah Cebron...
...younger students are flocking to internships now is a question experts debate. Carl Van Horn, director of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, attributes their popularity in part to helicopter parents who "push" their kids to stand out in a hypercompetitive college market and employers who "pull" younger and younger prospects in to win a hypercompetitive talent race...
...humanity. They tooted trumpets and danced on the top. They brought out hammers and chisels and whacked away at the hated symbol of imprisonment, knocking loose chunks of concrete and waving them triumphantly before television cameras. They spilled out into the streets of West Berlin for a champagne-spraying, horn-honking bash that continued well past dawn, into the following day and then another dawn. As the daily BZ would headline: berlin is berlin again. Beijing June 19, 1989 One man against an army. The power of the people versus the power of the gun. There he stood, implausibly resolute...
...Mark Lyens, equipment manager for the Walsh Group, a national construction company with about 2,000 trucks, says this year he has overseen the repair of 50 tires--to save rather than shred them. Growing demand for such fixes has benefited tire-repair outfits like the Big Horn Tire Shop of Gillette, Wyo., which has more than 30 workers fixing about 70 tires at a time. Repair jobs there can take two days and cost from...
Intelligence and military officers have long urged that more attention be paid to Africa; some believe an enhanced presence would cut the need for "teeth." Centcom has had a small contingent in the Horn of Africa state of Djibouti since 2002, and Centcom commander General John Abizaid told the Senate Armed Services Committee in March that the unit has helped "discredit extremist propaganda and bolster local desires and capabilities to defeat terrorists before they can become entrenched." How? By training local forces, digging wells and building schools--not to mention goodwill...