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...said of her choice to train for Olympic competition. “Most coaches wouldn’t be as understanding as he’s been. It’s hard for him to let me go—I’m sure he’d prefer me to stay—but he’s been my biggest supporter at Harvard.” —Staff writer Madeleine I. Shapiro can be reached at mshapiro@fas.harvard.edu...
...Café—which takes the place of the library’s former reference room—has been a welcome addition to students’ favorite reading period haunts. While socializing and a library may seem like strange bedfellows, on a campus where many students prefer a 4.0 to a 40, we cannot pretend to be too surprised.We also cannot feign shock at the light use of the Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH). Though the administration has offered considerable perks to SOCH users—including a snazzy café, a well-equipped library...
...problem is so big, tangled and fraught that some House members prefer to let the Senate take the lead. After all, if Senate Republicans could be lured into a filibuster against a climate-change bill, they might hand the Democrats a strong issue for the upcoming presidential campaign. Dingell, who calls the Senate "a constitutional mistake," wants nothing to do with that strategy. Nor does he have any sympathy for environmentalists who believe the best thing to do is delay action until a Democrat wins the White House...
Dingell would prefer to do away with the existing CAFE system for measuring fuel efficiency and replace it with a system that measures tailpipe emissions. After all, a car that runs 25 miles on a gallon of clean biodiesel might be preferable environmentally to a car that runs 35 miles on gasoline or liquid coal...
What was the connection? In the way they were assembled, the way they came, the way they got their ammunition and arms, in the way they were discussing and developing their plans and so on. I'm not talking about a telephone call. I prefer not to get into more specifics than that...