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...rowdy crowd, a frail stage, and miscommunication led to a short but memorable GirlTalk performance at last year’s Harvard-Yale pep rally. The event, which precedes the annual Harvard-Yale football game, was shut down by HUPD for safety reasons, and DJ GirlTalk was forced to exit the stage early as the crowd continued to push against the weak stage. It was the first time the College Events Board had brought in a big name artist for the pep rally, and it may well be the last. This year, CEB has wisely decided to return...
Another contingent of co-ed sailors made the short trip down the banks of the Charles River to compete at the Oberg Trophy regatta at MIT. The squad competed in three divisions on the weekend and finished 11th out of 17 schools...
...County Health Department has been forced to limit their first doses of the vaccine to health-care workers and emergency-services personnel and children ages 4 to 18. Out of the 70,000 doses the county requested, they only received 5,400. "Since we got such a short supply right now we wanted to give [the vaccine to] the group that has been most affected, and because this is a vaccine that can be used for children, we wanted to make sure and get the vaccine to the children while we could," says Brandi Binkley, director of Health Promotion...
...block their leader on that would be a gratuitous slight. What is questionable is whether they will vote with him when the time comes to cut off a filibuster, a procedural move that is known as invoking cloture. At this point, it appears that Reid could be three votes short, with most of the focus centering on Senators Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Ben Nelson of Nebraska. All three come from states that John McCain carried handily against Barack Obama in 2008, and Lincoln faces what could be an uphill battle for re-election next year...
...began gathering notes on potential candidates for this year’s ranking in January. At that time, a group of 15 Kennedy School students drew up a short-list of about 300 individuals, which was then pared down 100 candidates...