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...that the members of the men’s baseball team needed yesterday’s 10-8 come-from-behind victory against Northeastern is an understatement. Maybe now, the team can refocus in time for this weekend’s crucially important four-game set against Yale...
...troops were advancing on Baghdad, President Bush called his own pause in the war last week to meet with a group of economists in an effort to refocus attention on his economic plan. The meeting was billed as a thoughtful discussion of the challenges confronting the stagnant economy, but participants described it as largely a cheerleading session for the most controversial element of Bush's plan: the $364 billion elimination of taxes on dividends. "Clearly it was a biased group," said a participant, noting that many of the invitees came from securities firms that will stand to benefit from...
...Monday’s firing—for firing it was—of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, serious questions remain concerning plans now being formulated by Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby to revamp the College experience and refocus it around academics. Lewis may well have irked undergraduates with his keg ban at Harvard-Yale, but he had an intelligent, holistic vision of undergraduate life. And even if Lewis’ personality clash with Summers made his departure inevitable, as University Hall insiders have confirmed, his balanced perspective should...
While we were happy to see The Crimson’s coverage of the Lowell Open debate regarding the appropriateness of sending daily Black History Month facts over the list, we feel the need to refocus the issue given The Crimson article’s focus on the “accusations of racism” in Monday’s article (News, “Accusations Fly in Debate Over Use of Lowell Open,” March 3). Lowell House’s Race Relations tutor and the Race, Culture and Diversity (RCD) Committee, as well...
...travel on dirt? Do you haul a livestock trailer? It wouldn't remove the stigma, though. As long as some people are living larger than average, they will be targets for grumpy puritans and prohibitionists who, if they ever manage to get their way over SUVs, will refocus their wrath on "professional style" kitchen ranges or riding mowers above a certain horsepower...