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...quarterfinals of a college basketball conference tournament in Boston. I got to see teams that I had seen and written about during the year, teams from the north-eastern part of the country, battle it out with the hopes of keeping their season alive and advancing to the promised land, the NCAA Tournament.So which Ivy League schools survived the day and extended their seasons? Penn? Princeton? Harvard?Alas, none of those teams, nor any other teams in the Ivy League won any of these games, mainly because none of them played. What I saw was the America East Championship, held...
...Agreement and are seen by the U.S. as partners in the war on drugs. Just last fall the Bush Administration nominated Guatemala to take the Latin American seat on the U.N. Security Council as a means of shutting out Venezuela. The U.S. government says the seven-country region, a land bridge between South America and Mexico, has become a major transit route for over 75% of cocaine moving from Colombia up through Mexico and into the U.S. The fallout from the ongoing investigations, now being conducted with the help of U.S. FBI agents, will surely cast a shadow over...
...least at my Whole Foods--the one in Manhattan's Union Square, where I shop once or twice a month--most of the available produce comes from California or some other distant land, even during the local growing season. Like all other Whole Foods locations, the store began to push local products more aggressively last summer. A placard was posted above the escalator exhorting customers to BUY LOCAL, and all the cash registers were changed to show photos of area farmers...
Harvard’s vision for Allston as outlined in its Master Plan will do just that. The University has shown that it has put tremendous thought into how it can best develop the land it has acquired in Allston, balancing the needs of faculty, staff and students from several schools with the needs and desires of the community. The coherence and focus of Harvard’s overall vision should not be violated merely to cater to one of the many factions with a stake in the future campus. Doing so would create a piecemeal campus that would prevent...
...Nhat Hanh has turned his attention to healing the wounds of war in his communist-run native land. But his mission faces opposition from a surprising front - fellow Vietnamese Buddhists. Last week, Nhat Hanh arrived in the former Saigon for a 10-week tour, his second in two years. His plans include a series of three-day Buddhist mass-chanting ceremonies, the first starting March 16, to pray for the dead on all sides of the Vietnam War, unprecedented "Grand Requiem" ceremonies that Nhat Hanh's followers hail as a leap forward in Communist-Buddhist relations...