Word: raining
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...first storm came barreling in off the Pacific in the early hours of Dec. 26, dumping snow by the foot on the mountains of Washington, Oregon and California and paralyzing Seattle, which rarely sees anything but rain. Then a second storm rolled in, and after that a third. By New Year's Day the Northwest and British Columbia had been pounded by a week of unrelentingly foul and often deadly weather...
...small but determined group of demonstrators stood in the rain outside the Harvard Faculty Club Saturday afternoon to protest a conference on El Salvador at which Rene Leon, the Salvadoran ambassador to the U.S., was speaking. The sound of cars on the wet pavement of Quincy Street mingled with the chanting of the Boston branch of the national Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES). To protest the “Salvadorans in the World” convention, the small group rallied with cries of “Leon, escucha!” “Escucha?...
...mark of 179. While Harvard’s A-division squad managed only a 16th-place finish, the B-division did manage to climb into ninth with a total score of 70 points. Persistent, strong winds made conditions especially difficult for B-division racing. The Crimson also braved the rain to participate in the Reid Trophy at Boston College, but was only able to place fifth out of six teams competing. By winning just two out of ten races, Harvard bested only the University of Vermont. Next weekend, the Crimson will attempt to capture the Hoyt Trophy at Brown...
Technorati and budding tech entrepreneurs trucked through Saturday’s rain to be schooled on start-ups and be told that the economy is on the verge of another dot-com frenzy at Startup School, a one-day symposium designed to promote start-up companies. Y Combinator, a tech company incubator, teamed up with Harvard Computing Society (HCS) to host the event. The organizers brought cognoscenti including Michael Mandel, the chief economist at BusinessWeek, to lecture to the 500-person audience in the Science Center. Mandel summarized the dot-com boom of the late 1990s in four words...
...even heavy rain could dampen the spirits of the almost 4,000 people who flocked to the Bright Hockey Center on Friday and Saturday nights for Eliot House’s 36th annual ice-skating charity benefit show, “An Evening with Champions.” Skating celebrities and up-and-coming talents from the Boston area and throughout America donated their time to raise money for The Jimmy Fund, which supports efforts at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to fight children’s cancer. This year’s Evening co-chairs Kierann E. Smith...