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...starboard. But before he could issue a distress signal, three fiberglass speedboats with powerful outboard motors had pulled alongside the Semlow, a 58-m cargo boat often chartered by the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) to ship aid to Africa's neediest. The pirates hooked a small metal ladder to the ship and scrambled aboard. "There were 15 to 20 men wearing shorts and T shirts," remembers Mahalingam. The boarders were barefoot but carrying pistols, AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades. The pirates rushed to the bridge where, in halting English, they demanded to see the captain; they quizzed Mahalingam...
...they deserved to win,” said Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91. The Bobcats’ conference opener was staged in the Hartford Civic Center, and Howe has lent his name to Quinnipiac as it climbs the rungs of the hockey ladder, trading in Atlantic Hockey for the ECAC. Just over a minute in, as the Bobcats student section wrapped a sea of yellow around Harvard goaltender Justin Tobe, Quinnipiac took its first-ever ECAC lead. Tobe had been drawn out of position, sliding to cover a shot from the left circle. The puck sailed wide...
Harvard’s House community, as it stands, is rather pitiful. Think of where the Houses stand on the ladder of communal allegiance. At the top lie a hodgepodge of athletic teams, blockmates, social clubs, and tightly-knit student groups. Then come second-tier student groups, after that cultural or religious affiliations, and, only then, the Houses. One is almost embarrassed to introduce a friend by (merely) claiming a shared House. Whereas at Oxford and Cambridge—the universities upon which our system was modelled—students are still identified as residents of certain colleges, at Harvard...
...private sector. There, as in government agencies, incompetence rises above capability. Promotion is more about who you know than what you know. After 30 years in the business world, and the past 15 at a management level, I have watched empty suits move up the ladder because of their politics and presentation rather than their productivity and competence. We are losing our edge in the global-business arena because of that, and the nation is suffering...
...Freeman’s piece in Harvard Magazine that winter, Mankiw added that, with higher wages, a more skilled worker would be more likely to displace a less skilled worker.“In the short run, a living wage might benefit those at the bottom of the economic ladder,” he wrote. “In the long run, they would be replaced by those who are already a rung or two higher.” But Gould-Wartofsky says that there should still be no question about instituting a living wage.“It?...