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Even the section devoted entirely to citizen and visa services, the consulate, is little more than the paper-generating hub of this apparatus. They operate mostly like unusually officious post offices with Kalashnikov-armed guards outside. Consulates close unexpectedly on both native and foreign holidays, take long lunch breaks and confiscate your cell phone at the door. And then they turn you away because you’re one dirham short of the ?70 passport renewal fee. Some of the officials who work there, behind the dreary glass screens, are, no doubt, delightful people. But there’s little...
Despite being the hub of one of the most famously awkward dating scenes in all of America — where else do people meet on the steps of the library to go on their first date? — Harvard is nevertheless home to many happy couples on all ends of the romantic spectrum. In a school where a rumored 70 percent of graduates end up married within the Ivy League, couples range from hand-holding in the dining hall to saying “I do” in Memorial Church...
...boxing guys out for the rebounds. It makes my job a lot easier, and that was a great effort.”For a team whose seven seniors have never before competed for the Beanpot trophy, the Crimson are halfway there to crowning Harvard as the king of Hub hockeyThe only team that stands in its way: Boston College.—Staff writer Robert T. Hamlin can be reached at rhamlin@fas.harvard.edu...
...most anticipated college hockey tradition, the venerable Beanpot tournament, begins on Monday night at the TD Bank North Garden against Northeastern. Though the game is only an exhibition, the Crimson’s players are hungry to secure bragging rights as the best college hockey team in the Hub.“There isn’t a single guy in the room that’s played in the championship game,” Donato said. “I think they’re excited about that opportunity, and it’s something that I know everyone?...
Analysts say there are many reasons for Kenya to get so more attention: It is an economic hub whose port delivers supplies to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia and South Sudan; and it is an important U.S. ally in the War on Terror. And the potential for even greater mayhem in Kenya remains high. Both Annan and former U.S. President Bill Clinton have acknowledged their failure to prevent or stop the Rwanda genocide. And while western pundits may dismiss the comparison, for Kenyans, the fear of a second Rwanda is very real. "I can see the beginnings of an ethnic conflict...