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More recently Fernández has been pitching his island as a site for movie productions. He hired a Florida firm to act as the country's national film commission, and he had Robert De Niro over for lunch at the Presidential Palace...
...unclear just how much Fernández means to challenge this, even though his Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) is slightly left (but pro-business) and his upbringing quite modest. His mother fled the island to work as a seamstress in a New York City garment factory, which afforded Leonel some formative years in New York City's Upper West Side. To many, Fernández seems more fixated on consolidating power than on advancing his government's ambitious agenda. His government, for example, is spending almost as much building a subway line--$700 million--as it does on education and health together...
...sprinting portion of the meet by taking third in the 400 meter dash with a time of 49.84 in the finals. Fellow classman Nils Wernerfelt followed up Jones with ninth in the same event. Sophomore Haibo Lu took eighth in the 800 meter run, with Manny Karngar of Rhode Island College at the front of the pack with a time of 1:56.17. Lu’s time in the final heat was 2:02.51. In the field side of the meet, another experienced senior was at the forefront for the Crimson—Travis Hughes leapt 7.04 meters...
...third straight year, in what has become my own rite of spring, I eagerly eschewed tropical lures to make the five-hour trek from Albany down to eastern Long Island to spend a couple of days holed up in a friend’s basement bunker. Armed with various forecasting publications, reams of statistics and an unhealthy knowledge of the positional depth charts of all 16 National League franchises, we set about carefully assigning dollar values to every player in the N.L. based upon our projections of their 2006 performance. The goal was to develop an approximate plan of action?...
...Campus organizations suffer a dearth of institutional history, and students find themselves frustratingly trying to reinvent the wheel—and doing it alone. Moreover, for many students, there is an intractable sense of competitiveness that pervades Harvard’s co-curricular landscape. Each group exists as an island to itself, developing unhealthy, insular tendencies. It doesn’t have to be this way, and Harvard students do not want it to be this way. In its first year being offered, Psychology 1508, “The Psychology of Leadership,” taught by Lecturer on Psychology...