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...have been St. Patrick’s Day, but the Harvard men’s volleyball team (8-6, 3-1 EIVA Hay Division) would need no luck to beat the Engineers of MIT (22-11). With a raucous crowd cheering on the Crimson, Harvard swept its cross-town rival 3-0 (30-23, 30-17, 30-26), giving the team its fifth win in the last six games...
...left Harvard with a bittersweet victory.“We didn’t have enough intensity, and [we] played down to the level of our opponent,” Martin said.The Crimson cannot afford do the same at 1 p.m. Saturday, when it takes on nationally-ranked crosstown rival Boston University at Nickerson Field.—Staff writer Dennis J. Zheng can be reached at dzheng12@college.harvard.edu...
...implement,” she said. Goodman’s departure marks one of the rare instances of tenured professors leaving the Law School in recent years—the hiring frenzy in the past five years has seen Harvard poach more than a few distinguished legal scholars from rival institutions, including NYU. But NYU has also embarked upon an ambitious faculty recruitment campaign, hiring almost 20 full professors away from other law schools since 2004. Several professors at the Law School said that Goodman chose to relocate largely because of his and his family’s preference...
...course, P-I subscribers will automatically begin receiving its longtime rival paper, the Seattle Times on Wednesday. But even that consolation may not last long. "It's not a certainty that the P-I's departure will allow the Times to continue, much less flourish," says Richman, the business reporter. For example, as many as 20,000 of the P-I's 117,000 subscribers already received both papers. Local economists say the Times' own position is dire, pointing to its two-year pension freeze and the laying off of roughly a quarter of its staff in the past year...
...possibly strike again. As one minister said, "When the names of these terrorists are released, the earth will shake." A prisoner swap would also be a boon for Hamas because it would be seen as a political victory and strengthen its position in power-sharing talks with its rival, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who is backed by the United States and is acceptable to Israel...