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...dissected like the evacuation of Dunkirk. "It's just enveloping," says Eddie Lewis, a U.S. midfielder who has played the last four years in England. "There's no way to escape the football. It's probably too much." But unlike the other five Yanks playing in the English Premier League, Howard didn't join just any side. Having made only nine national-team appearances, the U.S.'s third-string goalkeeper suddenly found himself manning the posts for Manchester United, the most famous club on the globe, an institution despised and worshiped beyond all reason and "built," according to manager...
Harvard’s premier all-female choir presents their spring concert, dubbed “Sacred Works and Folk Songs.” Conducted by Katherine Fitzgibbon, the choir will sing works by Rachmaninoff, Lasso, Dienes, Byrd, and Jameson Marvin (Harvard’s Director of Choral Activities). Many pieces in the performance will also be performed by the group in South Africa this summer. The performance also includes selections by the Cliffe Notes, the Choral Society’s acappella subgroup. Tickets $14 regular, $7 students and seniors. 8 p.m. Lowell Lecture Hall...
...China's President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have styled themselves as political moderates. Although greater intervention in Hong Kong politics would damage that reputation, they have room to play good cop, holding out the promise of gradual reforms if the territory drops demands for direct elections. If Chen is re-elected in Taiwan, however, Beijing might come down even harder on Hong Kong. "Because the Taiwan situation makes China's leaders nervous," says Joseph Cheng, a professor of political science at Hong Kong's City University, "there will be very little room for tolerance or magnanimity toward Hong...
Last December, more than 100 Harvard faculty members signed two letters calling for Yang’s release. The letters were addressed to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who was speaking at the Business School that week...
...only Division I sport at Trinity, squash receives the attention as the school’s premier sport, and while Ivy schools are prohibited from providing athletic scholarships, the Bantams men’s team alone has four scholarship positions...