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...eager to visit the trophy case - and I converted. While, over the years, my view of the Spanish Civil War has grown more nuanced, my view of Barça has grown ever more romantic. During the era of the Franco dictatorship, Barça was the lone place where the Catalans could shout in their own language and denounce the authoritarian regime. No government would dare challenge 100,000 men in the throes of fandom. Franco understood that the Catalan people needed a place to vent their frustration, and Barça provided just that. No soccer team...
...Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” and, more recently, to produce last year’s “Brokeback Mountain.” Schamus’ success is probably the status a lot of film buffs want to achieve. And maybe, just maybe, Polonsky, with his lone film thesis in tow, is on his way there. —Staff writer Cara B. Eisenpress can be reached at eisenpr@fas.harvard.edu...
...it’s young sailors’ growth this year.“We were happy with our finish, though we wish we could have been a little more consistent,” freshman skipper Andrew Flynn said.Flynn and crew Lauren Brants occupied Harvard’s lone boat at the event, a regatta which gives teams good insight as to where to focus their training during the offseason. For Flynn and many other young sailors, that offseason is soon—the Priddy Trophy was his second-to-last event of the year...
...plan was to burnish Hyundai and Lone Star's public image, it's backfired. Critics and local media have called the pledges a cheap ploy to get the government to overlook any wrongdoing. "It's just ridiculous. It's an insult to the public and it is unprecedented," says Professor Jang Hasung, dean of Korea University Business School, calling the moves a bad precedent for other companies: "Now the rumor is who is next, and how much should they contribute...
...become a common strategy for corporate Korea. Samsung, the nation's largest conglomerate, announced in February it would donate roughly $800 million to charity following a spate of embarrassing incidents, including bribery accusations against its chairman Lee Kun Hee (Lee was cleared of the allegations). But Hyundai and Lone Star's moves aren't helping either company's regulatory woes, as the national Supreme Prosecutors' Office has said the donations won't influence the outcome of its investigations. "The government does not like the timing of the offers," notes Seoul-based business consultant Hank Morris. Maybe the next Korean company...