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...will face the most competitive election yet, Council leaders said yesterday. According to Undergraduate Council (UC) Public Relations Director Benjamin W. Milder ’08, 125 students are competing for 33 slots this election cycle, which begins today and continues until Thursday, with an average of 3.79 candidates per seat. This year is just a fraction more competitive than the previous record in 2003, when an average of 3.78 candidates ran per seat. Every House election will be competitive, with at least three candidates per seat, and 77 freshmen will be vying for a total of eight UC seats...
Thus, step by step, travelers have been subjected to ever more intrusive searches, interrogations, and general hassle. The security ratchet tightens over time and the costs, in terms of individual liberty, convenience, and taxes (over $17 million per day for the TSA alone), only rise. Even though the British didn’t catch the August 10 would-be bombers by confiscating their toothpaste—it took months of old-fashioned gumshoe detective work—the day heralded a new set of irrational security restrictions. Our shoeless security circus, where minimally qualified federal screeners leer at passengers...
...fight hunger across the globe. Hillel and Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) have agreed to donate the money that would have funded Jewish students’ meals to MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, a nonprofit that grants money to hunger-relief organizations worldwide. Harvard will donate $2.46 per participant, according to Hillel’s vice president for community relations, Erica L. Farber ’07. This is the third year Harvard Hillel has coordinated the Yom Kippur program, Farber said. She added that last year alone 320 students participated, raising nearly $800 for MAZON. HUDS has similar...
...used to fry French fries and doughnuts--and converts it to diesel fuel. It's a well-known technology, championed by the likes of country singer Willie Nelson, but it hadn't been cost competitive until recently. Pacific Biodiesel sells a gallon of its French-fry fuel for $2.84 per gal. to $2.91 per gal.--which was about 60 cheaper than a gallon of regular diesel in Hawaii last month. The company now produces about 4 million gal. annually...
...comfortable play-calling, because it’s a lot more comfortable when you’re controlling the line of scrimmage.”After averaging more than 175 yards through the team’s first two contests, Dawson’s three yards-per-carry average was only slightly better than last year’s 15-carry, 59-yard effort against the Mountain Hawks. The defense’s ability to again contain Harvard’s all-time leading rusher was most apparent early, as Dawson averaged just 2.7 yards per run for 41 yards...