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...eight secured the U.S. entry with a 0.05-second win over Penn in the Olympic Trials. The Harvard win fulfilled a five year-old promise made by the Olympic eight’s future coxswain, Paul Hoffman ’68, who taped a Mexico travel poster on the Newell Boathouse locker room on his very day as a freshman in 1963. Hoffman’s ability to stir the Harvard varsity even as a freshman proved quite the augur: he was almost expelled from the 1968 Games the night before the men’s crew final for apparent...
...heart of the controversy is the Swiss People's Party (SVP), the dominant force in the outgoing parliament. Last month it pasted thousands of posters across the country depicting three white sheep kicking out one black sheep from a paddock, with the slogan: "For more security." The poster became the parade example for furious accusations that the SVP was fomenting racism. Early this month, at a demonstration in the capital, Bern, hundreds of protesters pelted SVP members with rocks; police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd...
...message seems to have hit home with voters. The party has widened its lead since the poster campaign rolled out, according to the Gfs Research Institute, whose October 14 poll put the SVP ahead at 27.3%, compared with its nearest rival, the Social Democratic Party, at 21.7%. Of the 2,021 voters polled by the organization for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, 39.9% said they intended to vote for one of two center-right parties, and 10% said they would vote for the Greens. Ultimately Switzerland is likely to remain governed by four major parties, even if the SVP emerges victorious...
...leading Swiss People's Party legislator and a newspaper editor, claims that no other country in Europe has such a high proportion of foreigners. He acknowledges that the party's support is weighted heavily towards German-speaking east and northern Switzerland, but says: "Everybody in Switzerland understands the poster...
Deep within the bowels of the building at 10 Holyoke Street dangles a cardboard poster bearing the words, “Danger: Live Steam!” Set among gently whirring machinery and a maze of gleaming white pipes, the excitement of the sign’s tone is a much more apt description of what is going on upstairs...