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While John McCain and Barack Obama debate the tough economic situation, Harvard Square’s homeless community has been living it. According to a 2008 homeless census conducted by Cambridge for the ninth year in row, the city has witnessed a 10 percent increase in homeless individuals between 2006 and 2008, putting the official tally of Cantabrigians without a home at 487. As the economy worsens, even more people have been taking to the streets. Robert C. Reddick is one of Harvard Square’s recent victims of homelessness. After years of factory work, including stints...
...McCain is by no means out of the game yet. Since it is the eve of the World Series, let's use a baseball analogy: McCain is down eight runs, but it is the seventh inning, not the ninth. He needs to whittle away at Obama's lead in Nashville to put himself within striking distance, not strain for a tie with a wild swing for the fence...
...Harvard sailing team found itself extremely busy this past weekend, participating in five regattas around the New England area. The coed team was stretched thin, as they competed in four regattas, including the top-level Danmark Trophy. The team finished in the middle of the pack, placing ninth out of 20 in a very competitive race. Overall, the Crimson fared the best in the Smith Trophy, placing third, only ten points behind defending national champion Boston College.Meanwhile, the women’s team struggled on the Charles, finishing 11th out of 20 in the Regis Bowl at Boston University. SMITH...
Like Katrina, the tragedy is found in the particular and often reflected in the horrors facing the most vulnerable. In November 2005, three months after Katrina blew though New Orleans, 82-year-old Marguerite Simon sat on her front porch on Egania Street in the Ninth Ward. Spread out on the bushes along the path to the front door of her small home was an American flag, drying in the sun. The tiny, small-boned woman wearing rubber boots and a paper mask, had smoothed out the crumpled, wet flag that had draped her late husband's coffin...
...played host over the grueling weekend and finished second—eight shots behind the University of Oklahoma, who won the event. The Crimson’s 892-shot weekend (290-298-304) put it 32 shots away from the Cup. Dartmouth, the only other Ivy in attendance, finished ninth, shooting 905 (304-290-311). “The first day was really physically exhausting, and Yale is a very undulating course, so you’re constantly walking up and down hills,” Mayer said. “It was really strenuous...