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Vance has not lost a step since the end of last season. If anything, he expects to come in stronger and faster than before. After a summer playing in the Horizon Summer Series in Northern California and training under a strenuous off-season workout regime—he partnered with team captain Morgan Brown—Vance will hope to outlast the competition...
...confidence, electing him captain.There’s plenty to say about Brown, who hit .298 in 2005 in his first full season last year (he fought his way into the lineup after shoulder surgery in 2004). Just recently, he was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship to research religion in Northern India for a year. He has planned trips to Dharamsala and Benares. The batch of letters that he recently received from the Yankees, the Reds, and the Phillies poses an intriguing, if trying, dilemma.Not bad for a one-time Ivy League tryout.“You know, he?...
...leader - has been maneuvering to force the Shi'ite bloc that won the most seats in December's parliamentary election to withdraw its nomination of incumbent Ibrahim al-Jaafari as prime minister. The main Kurdish grievance with Jaafari appears to be his resistance to their attempts to incorporate the northern oil city of Kirkuk into their de facto autonomous mini-state; the last straw was a recent visit by Jaafari to Ankara to discuss Iraqi affairs with Turkey, which has made clear that it regards anything resembling Kurdish sovereignty on its border as intolerable. It has vowed to support Iraq...
...before the start of league play, the Harvard women’s water polo team split its two games in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. on Sunday. The Crimson beat Siena, 10-5, before falling to Marist in a tight game, 5-3. Next weekend, Harvard begins its league play against Northern Division opponents Hartwick, Queens and Utica. Crimson captain Arin Keyser said the weekend set the team up well for league play. “You never like to lose, but it can be a good learning experience for the team,” said Keyser, who scored ten goals on Sunday...
...Drayton, a Rhodes Scholar, former Kennedy School professor, and Harvard Law School alum, spoke about Ashoka, an organization he founded in 1980. Ashoka—a social entrepreneurship group—is Drayton’s answer to close “the social and economic gaps between the northern and southern hemispheres, while accelerating the democratic revolution through the citizen sector in developing countries,” according to Ashoka’s website. Drayton was introduced at the Forum by Gowher Rizvi, the director of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation and a lecturer...