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Both men dominated from the outset, as Johnson finished second and third in the first two races with Kovacs posting a first and a fourth place result to put tie the duo atop the leaderboard...
...role will evolve through the year, so it’s hard to be specific at the outset about what it will do or accomplish,” said John T. O’Keefe, assistant dean of Harvard College. “But I think this role has the potential to be of great help to our Houses...
While we recognize these dire circumstances, we reject calls for prematurely leaving Iraq. Although we were not in favor of the war at its outset, much of our opposition was rooted in the fear that invading and destabilizing Iraq would ultimately make America less secure. We had severe misgivings about this administration—so influenced by extreme ideologues—and we doubted its resolve to invest properly in the foundations of a new nation...
...every Harvard student, the charge of plagiarism could prove fatal to one’s undergraduate career. From the outset, students are forewarned of the College’s daunting zero-tolerance discipline policy; that is, whether inadvertent or otherwise, according to the student handbook, plagiarism of any sort “will ordinarily result in disciplinary action, including but not limited to requirement to withdraw from the College.” But, it seems that this stringent policy—aimed to ensure sincere and scrupulous scholarship—does not extend to members of Harvard?...
...Sadr was snubbed from the outset by the U.S.-run Coalition Provisional Authority when it denied him a seat on the Iraqi Governing Council, set up shortly after the war. Cut out of the political process, al-Sadr soon began delivering fiery sermons denouncing the council, the U.S. and the occupation. That struck a chord among the angry, restless young men of the slum neighborhood renamed Sadr City for al-Sadr's father. So did his Arab origins, which had always set the al-Sadr line apart from the Iranian-born Shi'ite ayatullahs like Sistani. For radicals who want...