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Early this year my wife and I watched Venus Williams, one of the world's finest tennis players, compete in Hong Kong. During the match several young men sitting near us kept referring in Cantonese to Williams as "black demon," as well as another unprintable epithet. They shut up when my wife, an American citizen who is ethnic Chinese, berated them for their racist language. (Williams, by the way, won the tournament.) What, I wonder today, would those men say about Barack Obama, who soon could be the U.S.'s first African-American President...
...crack of mid-morning, hoping the end to my headache was only a workout away. As I entered the MAC’s South Cardio Room, I spotted Eliza J. Livingstone ’09, the only other person in the room, sashaying fervently on an elliptical near the window. Although in the midst of a weight-loss, hill-climb, level-five, Livingstone was still thumbing through “Us Weekly,” a spiral-bound course pack, and unread emails in her Blackberry. Suddenly, Lucile M. Maxwell ’09 sprang into the cardio room, upsetting...
Several cars parked along Walker St. near the Quad were found vandalized and broken into Tuesday, and at least two had GPS devices stolen from them. Cambridge Police Department officers are investigating the case, as it occurred off-campus, and have not taken any suspects into custody as of yesterday evening. It is unknown whether the break-ins were connected. No crime alert was sent out to the Harvard community, according to Harvard University Police Department spokesman Steven G. Catalano. A resident of Walker Street, found that her 1999 Plymouth Voyager had been broken into at approximately...
...Western Ave. that currently contains only a gas station—into a community hub that contains restaurants, cafes and a park. To illustrate their particular vision, the presenters made comparisons to other lively urban centers that are bordered by institutions, such as Harvard Square and University Park near...
...science class. This mixed record gives the impression that McCain doesn’t drink the Kool-Aid but wants the votes of those who do. But the question remains, where does Palin stand?Rev. Howard Bess, who used to be a Baptist minister in Palmer, a small town near Wasilla, argued that she is a young-earth creationist. According to Salon.com, Bess recalled a conversation where he pushed her on whether the earth “was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time...