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...flip side, Harvard opened the season with its best start since 2005, and despite recent setbacks, it doesn’t want to forget the early momentum it generated just...
...Recent data show that young people, in numbers not seen since the 1960s, are participating in public service. According to a 2008 Harvard Institute of Politics survey, more than half of 18- to 24-year-olds say they are interested in engaging in public service. Likewise, on our own campus, the majority of undergraduates report participation in public or community service during their time here. This past March, Phillips Brooks House Association’s alternative spring break program, which sends students to various locations for weeklong public service activities, received a record 380 applications—an increase...
Coming into the final competition of its 2009 fall schedule, the Harvard women’s golf team was feeling confident about its most recent play. Having won its previous tournament at Yale, the Crimson traveled to the Saucon Valley Country Club, located in Bethlehem, Penn., to compete in the Kelly Gutshall Invitational hosted by Lehigh University this past weekend. But with the onset of winter weather throughout much of the Northeast, the Harvard squad was not even sure it would be able to try to end its fall campaign on a high note this weekend...
...what elsewhere is a predominantly Buddhist land. Sporadic violence in the deep south bloomed into a full-scale insurgency in 2004. Overtly Buddhist targets like monks and teachers have been murdered by shadowy perpetrators, while Muslims thought to be collaborators with the government have been killed as well. In recent months, the Thai government has unleashed a troop surge to try to quell the violence, which has, in turn, spawned criticism of the military's heavy-handed tactics like torture and arbitrary detentions of Muslims, according to human-rights watchdog Amnesty International. (Read "Despite Outreach, Violence Is Up in Southern...
...despite considering "some credible candidates," the prize committee said on Monday that no prize would be awarded in 2009. In announcing the decision, committee member and former Botswana President Ketumile Masire said the panel "noted the progress made with governance in some African countries, while noticing with concern recent setbacks in other countries...