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Harvard coach Frank Sullivan will also need to get a more consistent game-long effort out of his team than he has in recent outings. In its past two contests, the Crimson have turned in two spectacular 50-point second half showings, but only after getting off to dismally slow starts in the first half...
...Tied for second place with St. Lawrence and Cornell, the Crimson (4-3-0, 4-2-0 ECAC) should not feel threatened by Rensselaer (RPI) or Union, who share a three-way tie for eighth place with Dartmouth...
...Moore clan is another weapon for the offense. Dominic (3, 1)--one of the top draft prospects in the nation--has pleasantly surprised Crimson fans, and his brother Steve (1, 6) is currently second on the team with seven points...
...Slowly, and almost unconsciously, banal daily events take on a greater depth of meaning, because not only is Rosetta poor, she and her mother live in a near-animalistic state. Rosetta earns paltry sums of money by selling repatched clothes to a local second-hand shop, catches fish with a crude wire-and-bottle and can only ease the physical pain of abdominal cramps with a hair-dryer pressed against her belly. The alcoholic mother is reduced to exchanging oral sex for rent and electricity bills, and the two live in a dismal trailer park ironically named "Le Grand Canyon...
...second problem is one of standards. The activists are incensed that the WTO dispute settlement boards can rule that duly enacted U.S. laws are contrary to the WTO. This they claim is undemocratic on its face. But the critique is foolish: the whole point of international trade agreements is to bind the parties to a set of shared standards (that they have mutually adopted), so that they don't engage in unilateral actions to the detriment of others. The fact that such unilateral actions are democratically enacted within a member country is beside the point...