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...potent offensive force in collegiate women’s hockey. This past weekend, Raimondi stepped up and proved how valuable she is to Harvard with a goal at the end of regulation and another one with one second remaining in overtime to earn the win against Clarkson and seal a home playoff series—Raimondi and her fellow seniors’ last games in Bright Hockey Center. “I’ve settled into a different style of play this season,” Raimondi says. “Everything is so close that nothing is absolutely...
...Gutierrez's December meetings with al-Qahtani took place at Guantanamo's Delta Camp 5, which the military calls a "maximum security, semi-permanent, hardened facility." Thick cement walls loom over the tropical landscape. Inside are two-story cellblocks branching out from a guard station. Thick metal doors seal tiny cells; no one but Military Police can see in or out except for surveillance on closed-circuit television...
...student and faculty bodies in perfunctory consultations. This tradition lies in stark contrast to the modern norm of comprehensive search committees, which in Harvard-lingo would include Corporation members, Overseers, faculty, staff, and students dealing with the nitty-gritty of the search process; the Corporation’s final seal of approval (as a solo act, that is) would become the perfunctory gesture, rubber stamping the collaborative process it had been forced to engage...
...hate penguins. I used to pride myself on being an animal lover. I used to greet my conservative friends with diatribes against arctic oil drilling. I used to laud the proud Alaskan moose and the Pacific seal at City Hall every Earth Day. But no more. Damn penguins. Two hours of penguins mating and dying is enough to make you eat veal, stop cutting the rings on your soda can packaging, and dump oil into the Caspian sea. I’m an unwilling convert, but perhaps with a cheap handle of rum and a bottle of Coke...
...hostess”) has her reasons. “Larry Summers is not someone that I want to represent me,” she said. “He’s not someone that I want to represent Harvard, not someone that I want to represent the seal, Veritas.” But Goodman did not only spit bile about Summers. At one point, she managed to get in a back-handed compliment to the Man. “At least his case of foot-and-mouth disease is not as bad as the nation’s president...