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...Crimson must gear up for the EARC Sprints May 10 in Worcester, Mass, one of its biggest races of the season.“To have the results we did today was pretty encouraging,” Schreck said. “We know there is some speed to pick up, and there is also some momentum to carry us into Sprints, which is a race we put a lot of attention on throughout the year.”“We’re not ranked first going into Eastern Sprints,” Gawlik added...
...Most of the tunnels are pretty crude, what law enforcement call gopher holes. Typically just a few feet down and only long enough to get under a fence or two, they can be dug with a pick axe and shovel in the span of just a few nights. Some of them tap into existing infrastructure, using paved roads as roofs, or by punching their way into extensive storm drainage systems that are sometimes shared by border towns, such as with the town of Nogales, Mexico and its northern neighbor in Arizona - also called Nogales...
However, one glitch in the process remains—instead of going to the box office like everyone else, students using SEF must visit a separate table at the door of the event to pick up their tickets. While trivial at first sight, this pickup procedure reinforces socioeconomic divisions on campus by singling out some of the poorest students at Harvard...
Luckily, the problem seems to be easily fixable. Students should be given the option to pick up their tickets at the box office in the Holyoke Center instead of at the SEF table. This way, the SEF ticket would be a private matter. Students would simply go to the box office, display their SEF credentials, and receive their ticket. At the door of the actual event, they would be welcomed in just like everyone else...
...will get his job? There is near consensus among sources inside and outside the Administration that the President will pick a woman. George W. Bush replaced one of the court's two women, Sandra Day O'Connor with a man, Justice Samuel Alito, after Bush's legal counsel, Harriet Miers, withdrew under attack from the right. The other near-absolute requirement will be relative youth, as Obama and the Democrats will want to ensure a left-of-center voice for decades to come on a court featuring two relatively young conservative justices, Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts. (See pictures...