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...next team, Vermont. For Harvard, junior Oliver Burress, freshman Trevor Petach, and junior Chris Nabel finished in 19th place with a time of 1:32:07, only a few seconds off the 15th position. The Crimson will have one week’s rest before traveling to Prospect Mountain, Vt., to participate in the Williams College Winter Carnival. —Staff writer Vincent R. Oletu can be reached at voletu@fas.harvard.edu...
...just happened to be the [teams’] catalyst.” This same teamwork later helped save his life. During an expedition to Borneo 15 years ago with his professor from graduate school, Ashton was bitten by a venomous snake on Mt. Kinabalu, the tallest mountain on the island. Two other members of the expedition carried him down the mountain and into a nearby village. “I thank them for my life,” Ashton said. Ashton is currently working on a book chronicling his work with tropical forests in Asia, and expects to continue...
...frightened they all were, and I wondered what they must have gone through. The men who got up to speak were white, and their hands holding the prepared statements shook. None looked in my direction. The man with the tinted spectacles said, ''You have listened to the mountain of evidence against you. Your crime against the Chinese people is extremely serious. You can only be reformed by giving a full confession telling us how you conspired with the British imperialists in their scheme to undermine the People's Government. Are you going to confess?'' ''I have never done anything against...
Having found another politician of good character, solid record, and engaging personality, right-wing media outlets, from Insight Magazine to Fox News, and supposedly other Democratic candidates are making a mountain of Obama’s trivial connection to Islam; if they can’t attack him, then they can attack Islam instead, which is so easily stereotyped as a radical threat to the safety of America. They are aided in this non-specific witch hunt by news stories such as CNN’s “Radicals vs. Moderates: British Muslims at Crossroads” which...
...Flickr deal turned out to be a critical one. Butterfield says he chose to sell to Yahoo! rather than Google because the former was a more disciplined company. "At that time, Google was especially chaotic," says Butterfield. Google bought YouTube, which has generated a mountain of buzz, but Yahoo! has quietly leveraged Flickr, Answers and Del.icio.us, among other recent acquisitions and launches, to get its audience--which includes nearly half of the world's Web users--to spend more time on its network of sites. Yahoo!'s new ad system will capitalize on their presence--and on data it collects...