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Harvard track and field kicked off its indoor season with a fast start at Saturday’s Northeastern Husky Winter Carnival. While no team score was kept, both the men’s and women’s squads registered strong opening meets, with a combined 15 top-10 performances on the day. The women’s squad had the strongest debut, with three winners and 12 top-10 finishes. Junior Becky Christensen won the high jump by clearing 1.72 meters. “Basically, the goal is basically just shake off the dust and get back into...
...flaws such as occasionally sloppy play late in games, which almost cost the Crimson a win against Dartmouth on Tuesday night. It is also an opportunity to put pressure on No. 1 New Hampshire in the national rankings. A Harvard sweep combined with a Wildcats loss to either Northeastern or Boston University this weekend could push the Crimson into the top spot in the country...
...Indian growers have struggled to pay the country's 1 million tea workers. Unpaid employees launched a wave of strikes, while some owners sold or simply abandoned their plantations. "Many tea plantations became totally unviable," says Shiv K. Saria of Soongachi Tea Industries, which owns five tea farms in northeastern India. Estates went bankrupt because they were selling at below-cost prices and banks wouldn't lend any more...
...have to work on some things over the winter and early in the spring season.” ATLANTIC COAST DINGHIES The warm waters of St. Petersburg welcomed the Crimson on Saturday and Sunday at the Atlantic Coast Dinghies, an 18-team regatta featuring mostly Northeastern schools. Harvard’s seventh-place finish came after 26 total races, and Boston College took the top spot in the end. Kovacs and senior crew Elyse Dolbec paced the Crimson in A-division. The duo took third place comfortably, even after a bit of trouble in the early races...
...effervescently seductive as ever--322 million bottles were sold last year, thanks largely to the world's new rich. Russia imported 731,322 bottles in 2006--39% more than the year before. China's imports increased 50%. That demand has pushed Champagne, the beautifully austere part of northeastern France that produces this nectar, to the brink. "For 30 years the region of Champagne has always succeeded in coping with demand," Frdric Cumenal, president of the world's top brand, Mot & Chandon, said recently. "Today that's no longer the case. We will soon hit a wall...