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...market is shrinking. Wine consumption in South Africa, already relatively low for a producer country, is dropping, as some 1 million whites have left the country over the past decade or so and as tastes have changed. Reversing that trend could take years, but it won't be for lack of effort. One Saturday night in Soweto, local businessmen and women, trendy professionals and giggling teenagers are sipping, swirling, sniffing and sometimes guzzling bottles in a gymnasium. It's the second annual Soweto Wine and Brandy Festival, designed to encourage the nation's black middle class to embrace wine. Such...
...game, but we need to compete with every team we step on the field with,” junior co-captain Megan Merritt said. “Our demeanor on the field was not good from the start.” Despite an apparent lack of focus, Harvard still appeared the superior team for nearly the whole game. On the day, the Crimson posted 24 shots and held a 9-1 advantage in corner kicks, but Crusader goalkeeper Jessica Stone stood strong against Harvard’s offensive onslaught to record fourteen saves. In the opening frame, the Crimson controlled...
...Unfortunately, as interesting as all those topics are, in its attempt to cover such vast intellectual ground, the WGS concentration forces together some subjects that don’t have enough in common to warrant coexistence in the same program. In large part, it is the lack of complete cohesion between the separate parts of the concentration’s title—women and gender studies versus studies of sexuality—that is particularly troubling...
...Professor of Economics.” To this day, the only comment the public has heard from Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles on the case is that he has taken “appropriate action.” Many have taken Knowles to task for the lack of transparency in handling this case. While we do not share the view that Knowles has an obligation to air the Shleifer affair publicly, we are concerned that Knowles did not adequately consult the Committee on Professional Conduct (CPC), which traditionally oversees matters such as these. We do not find...
...entire nation. It is just the government that is not holding up its end of the bargain, and those of us interested in politics are sick of the rest of society having to drag the public sector along as dead weight. This, in part, explains the oft-noted lack of radicalism among most of the IOP’s students. Our times are not Kennedy’s times—for the most part, we don’t need a government that fosters a civil rights revolution, creates Medicare, or goes toe-to-toe with Khrushchev. We would...