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...playing local schools it always can bring a different connotation to the game itself. I know our kids are excited about it.”In the past, the big basketball schools did formally battle to see who was best in Beantown. A basketball Beanpot took place semi-regularly four times in the 1970s and the Crimson won half of those, taking the titles in 1973 and 1976. In fact, the 1976 was the last time that tournament was held, making Harvard the reigning basketball Beanpot champion.Harvard will have to wait a bit longer for a chance to defend...
Moves across all markets on Monday traced back to the economic news, highlighting the belated announcement by the semi-official arbiter of recessions in the U.S. that the country is in fact in a recession. The only real news in the announcement from the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research was the starting date that the seven economists on the panel assigned to the recession - last December...
...semifinalist for the Hermann Trophy, the most prestigious individual award in Division I men’s soccer. This is the second year in a row that the junior has been named one of the top 15 players nationally in collegiate soccer. Akpan, the only Ivy League semi-finalist, is the target man in a potent Crimson attack. His ability to create opportunities for his teammates, hold the ball up, and his knack for finishing make him as complete a striker as Harvard has ever had. The Grand Prairie, Texas native finished this year with 10 goals and 26 points...
...accounts, has had a rough couple of decades. The last central government fell in 1991, and, in the 17 years of infighting since, Somalia has broken into three spheres of power: the transition government in Mogadishu, a breakaway Islamic group al-Shabab in the south and center, and a semi-autonomous region, Puntland, in the north mostly under the control of pirates. The chaos breeds corruption, as Abdi Waheed Johar, the director general of the fisheries and ports ministry in Puntland, commented to the New York Times that “there are government people working with the pirates...
...despite Mickey's semi-retirement, his ears are still one of the most famous cultural icons of the 20th and 21st centuries. He has posed for photographs with every U.S. President since Harry Truman, save one (Lyndon Johnson never visited a Disney theme park). Disney claims that Mickey had a 98% awareness rate among children between ages 3-11 worldwide. Mouse-related merchandise sales have declined from their 1997 high, but they still make up about 40% of the company's consumer products revenue. Mickey returned to the big screen for a cameo in 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit...