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...Harvard Square will be a franchised hole-in-the wall and not a local hole-in-the-wall, we applaud the establishment of any student-oriented business in Harvard Square. After all, the last thing we need is another bank. But students had better grab that extra over-ripe piece of dining hall fruit just in case, because there is a caveat to IHOP’s debut. Thanks to the Cambridge License Commission (CLC), undergrads will not be able to take advantage of the late- (and late-late-) night hours that make IHOP so famous. Instead, the syrup palace...
...largely immune to the dictatorships, corruption and grinding poverty that mark so many of its neighbors, has long been considered the ?Switzerland of Central America.? But in recent years it has been plagued by a moribund economy and a string of presidential bribery scandals that have made it a ripe target for left-leaning pols like Solis. Arias, meanwhile, ran a bland campaign that seemed to rest on his Nobel laurels. ?Such a weighty name was supposed to sweep away any opponent,? says political analyst Victor Ramirez, ?but [voters] proved it wasn?t enough to reconquer? a population soured...
...Katrina New Orleans could fit on about half the land it covers now, according to Tulane School of Architecture dean Reed Kroloff. He notes that Washington, D.C., quickly turned around its inner core by offering tax incentives and other inducements for people to return. Inner New Orleans is ripe for a similar rebirth: It has the highest number of blighted and derelict houses-over 30,000-that could bring homeowners and developers back to neighborhoods like Treme, a rundown version of Uptown. "New Orleans has many historical neighborhoods with fantastic houses on high ground. We could make it richer architecturally...
...Olympic years, the time is often ripe for collegiate women’s hockey teams to fill their seasons with firsts.Harvard, which had three players take the season off to compete in the Games, usually finds itself in the middle of the fray.On Saturday night, the Crimson prevented Clarkson from earning its first home ECAC playoff game in program history, beating the Golden Knights, 3-2, on an improbable last-second goal by senior Jennifer Raimondi. That put the two teams in a three-way tie for third place in the conference. Due to tiebreakers, Brown earns the third seed...
...global poverty. A fair trade expo in Boyslton Hall’s Ticknor Lounge featured demonstrations by artists from the Peruvian Textile Group, who were selling handcrafted scarves, bags, and rugs. An array of fair trade foods, including banana chips, chocolate fondue, and coffee, were offered free to students ripe for a better world. The summit, which ends tomorrow night, is HIDO’s first campus-wide event to confront issues of international development. “We wanted to show that the quality of fair trade products is in fact just as wonderful as non-fair trade products...