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Harvard enters the Regionals as the highly touted No. 1 seed. A first-round bye will pit the Crimson against the winner of today's play-in match between Columbia (13-4) and Penn State (10-12) tomorrow afternoon...
...news for Burton-bashers: The pit bull's still with us. A bid to oust the outspoken Indiana Republican failed Wednesday when Burton used his power as chairman of the House committee on governmental reform and oversight to quash ranking Democrat Henry Waxman's motion. And despite Waxman's vow to take it to the floor of the House, it looks as if Burton has finally weathered the storm over his recent editing of the Web Hubbell tapes. One small success for the Democrats: They managed to block Burton's attempt to give immunity to four potential committee witnesses, whom...
...think that neighborhood association are an important way to address neighborhood issues in Cambridge, whose city councillors are at large," said area resident John Pit...
...Pit for more than an hour. Take a look. Take a good look...
ARCO and Montana Resources, the pit's custodians, like the idea of mining the fetid lake but say it is not yet economically feasible. A local environmental firm, MSE Technology Applications, is testing everything from microbes and chemicals to membrane strainers to remove the ores but says a workable process could be years off. That's too long to wait, warns Fritz Daily, a former Montana legislator who is concerned about an earthquake fault less than a mile from the pit. "If the water ever discharges, it could destroy the entire valley," he says. A growing number of others, Montana...