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Monday marked the launch of ESPN Boston, an offshoot of the popular sports network's website devoted entirely to the group of fanatics self-anointed the "Red Sox Nation" (To be clear, the site covers all things Boston sports, but if you are a Bostonian who doesn't align with Red Sox Nation you just aren't jumping on the bandwagon hard enough...
...Harvard Square. Lotman—also the voice featured in American Express and Chrysler commercials—wrote and designed a 240- page book documenting the last six decades of Harvard Square. The book, called “Harvard Square: An Illustrated History Since 1950,” officially launched on Tuesday. “I love the area, and I have seen it change a lot over the years. I wanted to see it as I first remembered it, and as it was before I got here,” said Lotman. While looking through local bookstores...
...threatens that these war crimes could eventually be brought before the organization’s International Criminal Court in The Hague if each party does not launch private investigations into their own actions within the next six months. But the U.N. should be less naive in its threats—as the United States sits on the Security Council, which decides whether certain cases will be brought to the world court, it would strongly hesitate to consent to a case against Israel. This case, then, is not something that would likely ever be brought to international trial, and threatening such...
Advocates for the poor worked to revive the program over the following years. In 1959 - 50 years ago this month - Democratic Representative Lenore Sullivan of Missouri successfully championed a legislative amendment to launch a pilot food-stamp program to be run by the Agriculture Department. While the Eisenhower Administration showed little interest in the idea, President Kennedy's election the following year marked a major turning point: moved by the abject poverty he witnessed on the campaign trail in West Virginia, Kennedy authorized a three-year food-stamp program beginning in 1961. Following in McFiggin's footsteps...
This Wednesday marks the official launch of a national online women’s magazine, HerCampus.com, started by Windsor G. Hanger ’10, Annie Wang ’11, Stephanie M. Kaplan ’10, and Kelly J. Peeler '10. What began as an idea for the Harvard Student Agency’s I3 competition, is becoming a reality for the four women six months after winning the I3 Investment Award...