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...Verdi DiSesa was granted the top seed in the “B” draw, but was upset by Bill Hatch of Yale in the Round of 16. —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Vincent R. Oletu can be reached at voletu@fas.harvard.edu...
...York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg denounced the party gridlock in the federal government, speaking at the Kennedy School of Government last Friday after accepting the Pathfinder Award for public leadership. Bloomberg said that Washington is “dysfunctional” and too preoccupied with “what their little constituency wants.” The mayor was especially critical of Washington’s treatment of issues surrounding education, saying that the national government is “all talk” but no action. “Children are so far down the list when decisions...
...interview before the banquet, Lambda Co-President Adam R. Sorkin said that his organization was impressed by SLDN’s continued efforts to lift the ban. When SLDN was created in 1993, its mission was to end harassment and discrimination against military personnel that were directly affected by “don’t ask, don’t tell...
...site. And when a student criticized an economics professor for pushing a socialist viewpoint—through the anonymous e-mail system—the professor explained his teaching in a mass message to the class and changed the course problem sets to reflect a wider perspective. Joshua R. Weinstein, vice president of Princeton’s student government and the site’s creator, said its inception “was sort of spontaneous.” Weinstein added that he got the idea for the Web site after hearing about a similar system at the University...
...transparency of the process used by the club sports office and FiCom to award funds to club teams, while “trying to make sure that there is not [a] high barrier of entry to club sports for students on financial aid,” according to Michael R. Ragalie ’09, a co-sponsor of the bill. Ragalie said there were plans for UC representatives to meet separately with the club sports office and the financial aid office this week to discuss the legislation. Harvard club sports are currently funded at a rate below that...