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...administration has been weary of giving only the go-ahead without the participation of all 12. McIntosh said he agreed to allow HoCos to deliver the letters this year after all 12 offered to take part. Tomorrow morning, five residents from each House will arrive at Boylston Hall, pick up the letters for their Houses, and proceed to the dorm room of each blocking group’s primary contact, according to Cabot HoCo Co-Chair Thomas R. Benson ’09. While Benson said that he thinks the new student delivery method will be beneficial for Cabot House...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HoCo Members Will Deliver Housing Letters | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...since Harvard’s last Ivy League title in 2005, for another chance to suit up in the NCAA Tournament.Let’s just say he doesn’t want to wait any longer.Now, he may not have to. The Crimson is as good a pick as any to emerge from Ivy ranks that feature unprecedented parity—leading publication Baseball America tabbed it the preseason favorite—and Jenkins is among the candidates for the second-base job vacated by last year’s captain Brendan Byrne...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Making the Leap | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...happened to combine a lot of the things I was pretty good at: hand-eye coordination from baseball, the moves from hockey, and the athleticism from football. It just came quick to me.”Considering his late introduction to the sport—Jason did not even pick up a lacrosse stick until age 14—he faced a steep learning curve. But it did not take long to merge skills from previous athletic endeavors into one relatively unknown to the community. “He was the first player to ever get recruited [from his high...

Author: By Emmett Kistler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson's Duboe Is 'Wild' For Lacrosse | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...With just a handful of contests left on the nominating calendar, Clinton needs all the opportunities she can get to pick up delegates, and thus she has supported either counting the initial results or, alternatively, holding new votes. She is also hoping that her clean wins in the two important states would buttress her argument that her victories over Obama in most of the nation's largest states suggests she would be a stronger opponent against the Republicans' presumed nominee, Arizona Senator John McCain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Hopes for Florida Fade | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...fifth anniversary I'm not really optimistic about what's going on. Personally, I believe the violence will pick up within the next 6 to 8 months. We can see car bombs coming back to the city. We can see a lot of suicides. There's a lot of assassinations. We had a period of a month or two of quietness, but it's picking up. I hope that my country will be safe again to bring my family back and live with them together in our house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ali al-Shaheen — Baghdad Native | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

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