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...Northeastern Rugby Football Union (NRFU) playoffs. Now Harvard faces stiff competition at nationals, where they will most likely square off against Army again. “The biggest difference between the top ten teams and Harvard is not talent, but money,” said Fred J. Bressette, the Northeast Rugby Union’s vice president of colleges, referring to Army’s $2.6 million dollar rugby facility. “Harvard is as talented as any team I’ve seen this year.” Despite low initial expectations and a lackluster opening...
It’s not just at Harvard, either. College football carries little weight in the Northeast as a whole...
...Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic are perennial outcasts in the discussion of college football’s powerhouses. The region’s most recognized program—Joe Paterno’s Penn State Nittany Lions—has long neglected East Coast competition to tackle the Midwest’s finest in the Big Ten. Even Boston College fled the inappropriately named Big East...
...world's largest pepper exporter and second-largest exporter of coffee, cashews and rice. And multinational companies are increasingly selecting the country as a manufacturing base. Canon Inc. has two giant printer factories in Vietnam and is building a third in Bac Ninh province, 20 miles northeast of Hanoi. The new plant will be the largest inkjet printer factory in the world. Nike recently increased its annual production in Vietnam from 54 million pairs of shoes to 70 million, making the country the world's second-largest source of Nike sneakers (China is the largest...
...computer whizzes—Andrew K. McCollum ’07, Ameya A. Velingker ’10, and Yan Zhang ’07—are not planning on entering the dog-airline business, but the students competed in Saturday’s Northeast regional finals of the 31st annual Association for Computer Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest sponsored...