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...compliant transportation. Tata has raised the bar. Compared to the more common forms of transport such as crowded buses and packed motorbikes, the Nano is like a dream come true to the average Indian traveler. Furthermore, this car is emissions-compliant and poses a small environmental threat, unlike the sport utility vehicles driven by soccer moms on Massachusetts Avenue. As such, it’s decidedly hypocritical and perhaps even ethnocentric for western environmental activists to lecture Indians against driving cars.James A. McFadden ’10, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Mather House...
...years, the pinnacle of cricket has been the Test match, a five-day examination of skill and nerve. It can be dull at times: even after 30 hours' play the result is occasionally a draw. But it's cricket's best and brightest jewel. Since the 1970s, the sport's guardians have fed the cricket-lite one-day version of the game to its more fickle fans, but it's positively stately compared to Twenty20. The danger of Twenty20's spread is that, some day, few fans will have the patience for anything else, and cricket will have been turned...
...After those aspirations were finally extinguished with the fall of Benito Mussolini in 1943, post-war Italy used the Marshall Plan's funds to exploit its creative talent to the full. Iconic designs include the Cisitalia 202 Gran Sport, a 1947 automobile whose svelte curves were emblematic of the epoch's streamlined aesthetic; and Piaggia's Vespa 150 GS, similar to the one ridden by Audrey Hepburn in the 1953 film Roman Holiday. Speed also played its part in the golden age of Italian cinema; witness the Lancia Spider that homegrown idol Vittorio Gassman drove in Il Sorpasso...
...When I got here, I didn’t know there was a JV field hockey team—and I did research,” Blair says. “It’s not on the club teams website, because it’s not a club sport, and it’s not anywhere [on gocrimson.com, the Athletic Department’s website...
...We’re racing in the most difficult league in the country,” Alpine coach Tim Mitchell said. “Whoever wins the EISA is generally either first or second in the nation. It’s far deeper than any other sport that Harvard competes in terms of the strength of the league. It would be like Harvard football competing against Michigan and Notre Dame.” “We’re closing the gap,” Nordic coach Peter Graves said. “We’re working...