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...resurrecting HMAR, and so he and other OSAPR members restarted HMAR in the spring of 2007 as a subset of the OSAPR Student Alliance, a co-ed undergraduate outreach group aiming to raise awareness about social issues on campus.The newly-formed HMAR receives more guidance from OSAPR than its predecessor and is “democratic” without official positions, Braxton said.Van Niel, who is also a Harvard varsity football player, said HMAR seeks to create a safe college environment in which women can enjoy themselves without having to be afraid of the consequences of a man losing control.Van...
...with lackluster sales and a decidedly chilly reception from the press, garnering first place in PCWorld magazine’s “15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007,” the Redmond-based software giant has responded by deciding to stop offering Vista’s popular predecessor, Windows Experience (XP), for sale in retail and other channels. This move is not only a poorly concealed ploy to boost flagging Vista sales, but is also a policy that will hurt Microsoft in the long...
...known him to be crooked all along. New York is surely weary of sanctimonious politicians who say one thing and do another. Incoming governor David A. Paterson has inherited a difficult situation from Eliot Spitzer, but hopefully he will assume the office with the transparency and honesty that his predecessor lacked...
...orBig Pun. But before I commit hip-hopheresy and put Ross in the same ranksas Christopher Wallace, it’s important toacknowledge a whopper of a differencebetween the two. While Ross may havethe size and the fan appeal, he lacks thelyrical ability and thematic diversity ofhis heavy predecessor. Then again, “Trilla”is only Ross’s second album, so hestill has time to grow into the enormous,double-wide shoes he’ll have to fill ifwants to be “the biggest boss that you’veseen thus...
...Democratic politics provides a challenge to Tussaud's. Angela Merkel, elected German Chancellor in 2005, has been sculpted, but her figure is briefly on loan to Berlin. Her predecessor, Gerhard Schroeder, remains by popular demand. John Howard and Vladimir Putin make an unlikely, and dated, duo. Their successors, Kevin Rudd and Dmitri Medvedev, have not yet been commissioned, but are "very much on our radar," says Lovett...