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...When last year’s chair, Josh G. Allen ’09, severely limited e-mail campaigning, for example, he faced a near mutiny from incensed candidates and campaign workers...
...fight centers over a piece of green space—tucked among a cluster of houses near the Harvard Divinity School—that was built in 1915 as living quarters for Harvard junior faculty...
...sure they will be at the end of the year.”Up-and-down so far in this young season, Harvard is 2-0 on its home floor against high quality opponents. Led by sophomore Jeremy Lin’s 23 points and near triple-double performance, the Crimson defeated Mercer, 91-73, less than a week after the Bears beat then-No. 18 USC by 15. Wednesday night, Harvard used a late run to edge New Hampshire, 72-67. Unfortunately, the Crimson has been unsuccessful against the other big-name squads they’ve faced. Harvard...
Barack Obama's Iowa headquarters near the State Capitol in downtown Des Moines has the unmistakable décor of an insurgent operation: thinning, mildewed carpet; litter from sign-painting parties; recycling boxes full of canvassing tally sheets and empty Miller Lite cartons. But the deepening clutter hasn't covered up all the traces of what the building used to be: a hockey rink, which could hardly be a more fitting metaphor for a political contest that is suddenly getting a lot rougher. The old Dr Pepper scoreboard is still on the wall, but the largely twentysomething crew at Obama...
...power of the Internet," he says, "the scene is widely spreading to every region in Indonesia." But these days peer support, not protest, is one of the main attractions. One of Jakarta's youngest punks, 11-year-old Doing, meets up with his friends every afternoon at a playground near Blok M. With calloused bare feet and PUNK tattooed on his fingers, he survives by playing his ukulele on buses for money. "Punks are my family," Doing says...