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Tuesday night, students took a break from the rigors of shopping period to shake their thangs for a good cause. The 2003 Harvard Dance Marathon was held at The Matrix club in Boston, raising over $9,000 to benefit the Elisabeth Glaser Pedriatric AIDS Foundation. The Har’d CORPS event was organized by Lauren E. Bonner ’04 with former MTV personality Eric Nies hosting the fundraiser, along with Alexis C. Madrigal ’04. While Madrigal schmoozed the room, Nies MC-ed various dance contests, even participating in a limbo match...
...Korea urged a postponement to allow time for diplomats to work on the situation. In Seoul, North and South Korea met for their first high-level talks since the North precipitated the crisis when it withdrew from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty early this month. But after three days of marathon sessions, negotiators struggled to find wording for a final joint communiqué. Officials acknowledged that they had failed to make headway in getting Pyongyang to address the international community's concerns about its decision to withdraw from the nonproliferation pact, an accord that blocked it from developing nukes. But Seoul...
Cloney left an indelible impression on the Boston Marathon, according to those who lead it today...
Cloney is internationally famous for his tenure at the Boston Athletic Association (BAA), where he was president from 1964 to 1982 and directed the Boston Marathon from 1947 to 1982. Under his guidance, the marathon grew from a minor event that ran a deficit into one of the world’s premier marathons...
...helped shepherd the organization and the marathon through years of change and growth while striving to maintain the integrity of both the organization and its events. Mr. Cloney’s vision for the BAA Marathon was progressive in that he viewed it as a community-wide event which other marathons would come to emulate,” Guy Morse, the current BAA director, said in a written statement...