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...chauffeur and two bodyguards. The U.S. then sought, and got, Security Council approval to impose what would amount to a blockade of Haiti. It would not use the word, which Clinton noted historically describes an act of war. But on Friday the President dispatched six warships to stop and search vessels headed for Haiti. He also ordered a reinforced rifle company of perhaps 600 Marines to proceed from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, and there to go on alert, ready to fly to Haiti to help evacuate the thousands...
Click here and search for Harvard to see the squad in action at the preliminaries, but to hear more about their trip and what it means to the program, read on after the jump...
...then, do students continue to hit the pavement? Without a draft to oppose or a president to elect, students search for some purpose in their lives, and they usually find it in the latest fad, like unionizing hotel workers or divesting from Darfur. Because these issues hardly affect students, students hardly affect these issues’ outcomes. As a result, campus activists take solace in their intent instead of their impact. Unlike their apathetic friends, they at least cared enough...
Snakes on a Plane. Where's Samuel L. Jackson when you need him? Four baby pythons escaped their cage during a Qantas flight from Alice Springs to Melbourne on April 14. Workers searched the aircraft for the 6-inch reptiles - which are non-venomous, and can grow to about 3 feet - but after two flights had to be canceled to accommodate the fruitless search, the airline gave up and fumigated the plane. "They're not endangered, so a decision was made to fumigate," said Qantas spokesman David Epstein. "If these snakes turn up, they will be very much dead snakes...
Having already clinched a share of the EIVA Hay Division and in search of an outright title, the players on the Harvard men’s volleyball team (11-7, 6-2 EIVA Hay) set out to Newark, N.J., on Friday night to claim sole possession of its division’s top honors. Instead, the Crimson traveled home after being dealt a crushing 3-0 (30-28, 30-25, 30-23) loss from league rival Rutgers-Newark (9-13, 6-2).“Rutgers-Newark was a really good team and they were ready...