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...charged with improving the University’s bureaucratic—and at times impersonal—support system. The report likely will lead to significant improvements in the clinical services and residential resources available for undergraduates. But students, who have long complained about Harvard’s sub-par mental health safety net, would be foolish if they believed the answers will come from the administration alone...
Brown finished the regular season with a 8-3-2 record at Meehan Auditorium—not quite on a par with last year’s sparkling 10-2-5 home slate, but good enough to keep the Bears among the league’s best teams in their building...
...Shleifer and Daniel Shleifer argue many of these Western critics have simply projected unreasonable expectations of Russia's post-communist era. They maintain that contemporary Russia's mix of authoritarianism and democracy, its nationalist disposition and even its levels of corruption and criminality put in very much on a par with states of equivalent economic status. Russia's strategic nuclear missile fleet may have once made it a geopolitical competitor to the U.S. but by economic measure, its peers would be the likes of Mexico and Argentina. Its UN Security Council veto power may have given it equal importance...
...students aren’t the only ones left frustrated after a sub-par meal. Apparently, several members of the dining hall staff had also been dismayed by recent changes in infrastructure at the Lowell House dining hall, adding to the controversy...
...numbers in conference play this season—a 2.14 goals-against average and a .918 save percentage—are respectable, to be sure. But they rank him in the middle of the pack of ECAC netminders, and those numbers are not on par, relative to his league rivals, with the ones he presented last season when he finished a close second to Ken Dryden Award winner David LeNeveu of Cornell in goals-against average and save percentage...