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...such was their outrage over the latest piece of Dubai's economic development. A state-controlled company, Dubai Ports World, which aims to be a major player in the global-shipping industry, last November agreed to pay $6.8 billion to buy a British firm, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. (P&O), which controls terminal operations under five U.S. port authorities, including those in New York City, Baltimore and Miami. Citing security issues and a lack of information from the Bush Administration, usually free-trade Republicans like Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, have all but vowed...
...name, that of Max A. Newman ’07 must be added to the pantheon of Harvard’s great leisure-sport players. The Dunster House Grille played host to its first ever Connect Four Championship Tournament last night. The organizers, Dunster House residents Sophia P. Snyder ‘07 and Dara F. Goodman ‘07 postered, e-mailed, and networked their way to an entry pool of roughly 30 contestants. The music blared, the pieces clacked, and the victors rose as the double-elimination tournament rolled on through the night. Sticky notes...
...Activism in the 21st century,” sponsored by BAF, the Black Students Association, and the Institute of Politics. The panel will include talks by guest speakers Uzodinma Iweala and Chandra Ortiz, and will be moderated by Lecturer on History and Literature and Quincy House Resident Tutor Timothy P. McCarthy ’93. On the same day, the film, “Keep on Walking: Joshua Nelson, The Jewish Gospel Singer,” will be shown at the Carpenter center. There will also be an Arts Showcase that will include an act by a Senegalese musician from...
...negotiated [becoming the first openly gay black Mayor] in a way that seems effortless, and I admire that,” says close friend and Quincy House Resident Tutor Timothy P. McCarthy ’93. And though Massachusetts is the first state to allow gay marriage, Reeves has elected not to marry, at least not just...
...University’s governing body—appoints a seven-member search committee, which traditionally includes neither faculty nor students. “The search is the responsibility of five Corporation members along with one or two members from the Board of Overseers,” says Charles P. Slichter ’45, who served as a member of the Harvard Corporation and participated in the searches that tapped Derek C. Bok and Neil L. Rudenstein.“It’s important to have these overseers partake in the search because the final consent must come...