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Current UC President Andrea R. Flores '10 announces that these days have been "incredibly difficult times for the UC," and that their "image is at stake." Beseeching the UC to "move forward" and certify the election, Flores said her recent investigation, conducted with Assistant Dean of Harvard College for Student Life Susan Marine and FAS IT specialists, has revealed that "there is no questionable behavior [in] the UC's voting system" and that this election was "fairly...
Cambridge’s stake in folk music lore reaches all the way back to 1888, when the American Folklore Society was founded in Harvard Yard by Francis James Child, ballad collector and Harvard professor. His storied ballad collection, the result of a years-long literary search collaboration with folk song collectors in other countries, was a resource that singers such as Joan Baez, Tom Rush, and Eric Von Schmidt would later return to as a source of folk tradition...
This time at home on Ohiri Field, No. 11 Harvard (12-3-1, 4-1-1 Ivy), the only nationally ranked Ivy team, will play Penn (6-7-3, 2-3-1), again with the title at stake. The Crimson controls its own destiny with a single point lead atop the standings on both Brown and Dartmouth, who play each other this week. As long as the Bears and Big Green do not tie, Harvard must defeat the Quakers on Saturday to clinch the conference...
...What was this discussion really about? It seemed to be a dispute about fairness,” said Sandel. “But if fairness was the only thing at stake, why were the easy solutions so objectionable? Could it be that, really, what was at stake was whether or not the institutions are worthy of recognition and honor...
...numbers the protests won't be like 1998 against [former President] Suharto but in terms of pressure it could get just as big," says Eep Saefulloh Fatah, a political analyst from PolMark Indonesia, referring to massive protests that brought down the corrupt Suharto regime. "[SBY's] credibility is at stake and will take a serious hit if he ignores the independent team's recommendations." The team's findings will be announced this week, but time is clearly not on his side...