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...softball schedules require a slew of double-headers, games tend to come in bunches. And for this year’s Harvard squad, so do wins and losses...
...case of PetroChina is one where moral concerns clearly override the University’s legitimate desire to avoid having its investment decisions held hostage to a potential slew of causes. PetroChina’s parent company, China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), is a leading partner with the Sudanese government in the country’s production of oil, a major funding source for the government’s sanctioned genocide of the people of Darfur. A 40 percent stakeholder in a major Southern Sudanese oil concession, PetroChina’s parent company is also increasingly difficult to distinguish from...
...World Bank officials acknowledge that the project carries considerable risks, but they believe they've made them manageable. Underpinning their faith, says Porter, is a slew of economic reports and social and environmental impact studies they demanded of developers?all of which have been made available for public scrutiny. The Bank believes there are enough safeguards and mitigation measures now in place to minimize the impact of the dam and insists it has extracted guarantees from the Laos government that revenue will be used to reduce poverty...
When Casey comes home one day, caught in a slew of lies she must tell her mother in order to go ice-skating—yes, ice-skating—Cusack responds to her costume, which inadvertently falls out of Casey’s wholesome (read: dorky) backpack, with the vigilance that many parents might have had it been cocaine. The melodramatic scene begins as a slow-motion close-up as the backpack falls to the ground and Casey’s ice-skates and little red costume tumble out, and then cut to mom’s horrified...
Senior midfielder Elaine Belitsos racked up six goals to send the Harvard women’s lacrosse team (1-0) past UMass (1-2) in a 12-7 win in the Crimson’s season-opener. Led by Belitsos, Harvard buried the Minutewomen under a slew of first-half goals on an arctic afternoon at Jordan Field...