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...wishes there was an awesome story behind their name, but Rebecca Brey, a member of the group, explained that in truth there’s not much rationale behind it. “We started our sketch comedy group over 5 years ago and when we were coming up with names someone suggested Harvard Sailing Team as a name and that we wear argyle,” Brey wrote to us in an e-mail. (Are they calling us preppy...
While many Harvard seniors have been scrambling to find a job for next year, one member of the class of 2010 will be determining his future in a far different fashion—on the hardwood...
...Melton, a member of Cambridge’s Trinity College, says he prefers Harvard’s newer House system to the more formal Cambridge system, where students were required to wear full gowns in order to attend meals...
...Last week, the commission published rules for the citizens' initiatives, saying that the 1 million names would have to come from at least nine of the E.U.'s 27 member states. There are no restrictions, however, on how people can collect signatures, be it in the street or on social-networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. Once the signatures are in, the commission has four months to either accept the initiative by drafting a proposed law to go before the E.U. Parliament, or reject it. Petitions can be killed off if the commission finds them outside its remit...
...ambivalence is shared by George Schopflin, a Hungarian member of the European Parliament. "It is hard to think what subject might be suitable [for citizens' initiatives]," he says. "Many E.U. issues are unspeakably complicated. And many others that might engage European citizens, like whether we should all drive on the right, are too absurd for the commission to address...