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Over the weekend, Offsay’s offensive output helped spur Harvard on to the championship game at Northerns. Second-place is the best the Crimson has ever finished, and it earned Harvard a spot at the Eastern Championships...
...BUSH: In the face of 821,000 jobs lost since he took office in January 2001, Bush has argued that job growth will eventually emerge from tax cuts. The cuts, he says, stimulate the economy and will spur employers to hire more workers. To help some of the 8 million unemployed in the meantime, Bush promises in a second term to establish $3,000 re-employment accounts, granted like unemployment benefits, for job-search expenses like child care and transportation...
...don’t expect that Harvard alone can do much damage to PetroChina. But as one of America’s most recognizable and respected institutions, Harvard has an opportunity to spur a divestment campaign in this country. If the University divests, other investment funds susceptible to public pressure, such as state pension funds, may choose to divest as well. With formal economic sanctions in the U.N. rendered impossible by China’s veto power on the Security Council and military intervention in Sudan unlikely at best, Harvard must lead the movement to divest—starving...
Sudan activists can claim a record of success in their past efforts to spur divestment...
While the Big Red kept the dangerous Dawson contained, Fitzpatrick more than compensated to spur the Crimson’s ground attack. Harvard’s offensive line neutralized the blitz, providing Fitzpatrick with time both to search downfield for open receivers and to utilize his own mobility. He carried the ball 17 times, netting 102 yards and picking up a touchdown on a 17-yard dash in the fourth quarter...