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Nearly two dozen members of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) braved the elements to canvass for several Republican presidential candidates in New Hampshire on Saturday. After an hours-long bus ride, the students arrived in Manchester and Concord to approach local voters and drop off flyers on rain-splattered neighborhood porches. The downpour kept some students inside making rounds of calls to gauge and rally support for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and for Manchester’s Mayor Frank C. Guinta, who is running for re-election. The only voter they met face to face was the pizza delivery...
...ball eight times for 11 yards and scored a touchdown on a quarterback sneak early in the third quarter.“We’ve got to find a way to get more pressure on the quarterback,” Wilson said.DRY AND MIGHTY Sharp winds and heavy rain beset Cambridge most of Saturday afternoon, but the storm barely missed New York, marking the second straight week when the forecast called for worse weather than actually occurred.The swirling winds in Wien Stadium, however, did make things difficult for sophomore punter Thomas Hull, who averaged just 31.7 yards on seven...
...hyperbole perhaps, but the stands are very sparse just three minutes before kickoff. The band looks to be making up about half of the Harvard fanbase, while there are a scattered number of Lions fans on the east side of Wien Stadium. Maybe the sub-50 degree weather rain is keeping people away...
...more than to report that the Backstreet Boys had produced an album that reattained their infectious pop peak, complete with shimmy-inducing songs of unrequited love and perhaps a chart-topping ballad or two. Unfortunately, those who remember the heartthrob heyday of the Backstreet Boys (who can forget the rain sequence in the music video for “Quit Playing Games With My Heart”?) will be sorely disappointed. The pseudo-sincerity and saccharine factor runs high on “Unbreakable;” the pop ditties are notably absent. But at least the Boys are consistent...
...President Drew G. Faust’s installation last month, Bhabha shielded himself from the rain with a pink-and-red umbrella decorated with flower blossoms. When asked what fashion myth about academics he would like to dispel, Bhabha told the Globe: “That they always wear baggy tweed jackets. Or shapeless jeans...