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...Crimson shelves its gloves and bats for the summer and thinks back on the year that was, players may cringe a bit when San Diego State senior Stephen Strasburg, who has struck out 23 in one game, one-hit the Netherlands National Team in his first Olympic start, and has been called the greatest prospect ever by Buster Olney, gets selected first overall during the MLB amateur draft in June. To find out why, read on after the jump...
...Mass., await test results for the illness after returning from a trip to Mexico. The virus may not have infected Boston yet, but Harvard students are already feeling its effects. For Francisco J. Marmolejo ’12, a sustained outbreak could mean not returning to his hometown of San Luis Potosí in Mexico for the summer. “There is a sort of fear [in San Luis]. People are afraid to go out. Everyone wears face masks,” said Marmolejo, describing phone calls from friends and family back home. “I was thinking...
...sixth annual Auction to Benefit the Summer Urban Program (SUP). The event featured a silent auction as well as a live auction conducted by guest auctioneer and musician Livingston Taylor—the brother of singer-songwriter James Taylor. With big ticket items including trips to San Francisco and tickets to games at Fenway garnering high bids, PBHA received considerable funding for its community service programs. The night’s curator, PBHA Events and Fundraising Officer Sophia C. Sakellariadis ’11, described the annual auction as “the biggest fundraising event supporting SUP, and important...
Other groups like the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, the San Diego Minutemen and various Save Our State groups have joined the chorus, sending out a barrage of e-mails to supporters and engaging in Web chatter about the perceived threats from Mexico. The push has gained some traction in Washington, while being rejected, thus far, by the Administration. "The public needs to be aware of the serious threat of swine flu, and we need to close our borders to Mexico immediately and completely until this is resolved," New York Democratic Congressman Eric Massa, a member of the Homeland Security...
Before the flu epidemic emerged, both sides of the border were feeling the economic downturn - and the ripple effect was moving farther north. Phillips says the manager of a large outlet mall in San Marcos, 200 miles north of Laredo, Texas, told him that sales were down over the Easter holiday, traditionally a popular shopping time for Mexican tourists in Texas. But that slowdown would pale beside the impact of a border shutdown. (See a video of protests against building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border...