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President Obama himself, who ran as a self-nominated candidate in 1991 on a platform of divestment from South Africa, failed in his bid, boasting a thin resume pinned on his experience as a former “community development director” and Harvard Law Review president. Among the triumphant that year was then-senior vice president of Microsoft Steven A. Ballmer ’77, a former Crimson business editor...
...Freshman Darcy Wilson ran a team best on the season, placing first in the 800-meter in 1:55.48. Classmate Steven Geloneck came in second in the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.99, the first time this season the freshman ran under seven seconds. Junior Jonathan Brito had his best jump of the season, placing fourth with 1.89 meters in the high jump...
...more ECAC Championship qualifying athletes include freshman Shannon Conway and sophomore Jamie Olson. Conway beat out the rest in the 400-meter dash with a time of 56.84, the fastest time by a Harvard female this year. Olson ran the 800-meter in 2:13.41 and placed second behind Yale...
...five leaders of the Khmer Rouge will face charges in a tribunal backed by the United Nations. The first, Kaing Guek Eav - known better by his nom de guerre, Duch - ran the Tuol Sleng prison camp in Phnom Penh, where out of 17,000 Cambodians who were imprisoned, fewer than 20 survived. Pol Pot's second-in-command, Nuon Chea, will also face charges, as well as the Khmer Rouge's former foreign minister and head of state...
...over the inclusion of witnesses and other details in the trial that is expected to last about three months. Duch, who is now 66, oversaw Tuol Sleng at the height of the Khmer Rouge regime's brutality in the 1970s, a waifish mathematics teacher turned zealous revolutionary cadre who ran the prison with maniacal attention to the details of the life and death of his prisoners. (Read "A Brief History of the Khmer Rouge...