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...House Association Bike Auction as an easy way to save themselves from three years of shuttle dependence. Many of these students, however, were disappointed by the utter lack of merchandise at this year’s auction. Held on Oct. 3, the auction offered a meager 10 bikes for sale, compared to the nearly 50 of previous years. The reason might have something to do with the fact that the long-standing presence of Quad Bikes, the non-profit bicycle shop for the Harvard community, was nowhere to be seen. Had their charitable streak...
PBHA Executive Vice President Lydia N. Lo ’09-’10 agreed, saying “There was a slight misunderstanding as to where the bikes would go this year.” She also said that while the bike sale is a yearly PBHA event, it raises less money than many of PBHA’s other fundraisers. “It’s about keeping up a tradition,” says Lo. “It doesn’t matter that much to PBHA in the grand scheme of things...
...Shotnes points out that the effectiveness of gagging orders has been eroding for years, pointing to the banning of a book called Spycatcher, written by former British secret agent Peter Wright, in Britain in 1985. "The book went on sale in America and in Australia, and everybody was getting their friends to bring books back," he says. "Then it got to the point when you could injunct a newspaper, but you could still read the story about the celebrity on the website of a foreign paper. Now stuff can be communicated left, right and center. Half the people...
...Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the bench--and legal observers are watching this session closely to see if conservative Justices move more forcefully to override their liberal counterparts. Arguments will be heard on cases involving corporate political donations, antitrust complaints brought against the NFL, and First Amendment issues concerning the sale of videos depicting animal cruelty...
...been with us as long as there's been an income tax - at a cost estimated by the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation at $80 billion this year. The deduction for property taxes costs an additional $16 billion, as does the tax break on capital gains on the sale of owner-occupied houses...