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...more than a hint of irony in casting Harvard’s football team as the plucky wannabe facing a cunning and ruthless Yale squad when one considers that in reality the biggest difference between the two universities is geographical location, and even that contrast is far from stark...
...poor not to afford salt and sugar. And you have to have ruinous public sanitation not to be able to filter out the feces of an infected person from the water supply (ingesting fecal matter is the most common way for cholera to spread). So it is a stark indication of how far Zimbabwe has fallen that a country that used to export food is now in the grip of a cholera epidemic that the World Health Organization (WHO) says has claimed 412 lives and infected 9,908 people. South Africa's Sunday Times said 400 new cholera cases were...
...precedent and for which the outcome could have community-wide repercussions.Yet in the last 21 years, the SFJB has heard only two cases—both within the first three years of its establishment. Perhaps this is because the rusty machinery of the Student Faculty Judicial Board stands in stark contrast to the well-oiled Ad Board that forced 23 students to take a leave of absence last year. Perhaps the option seems unappealing to students: According to Max H. Y. Wong ’10, a UC Vice-Presidential candidate, “Resident Deans, to my knowledge, generally...
...over No. 16 Clarkson at Bright Hockey Center on Friday night. The Crimson scored three times within seven minutes early in the game to take the lead. After the explosive first period, Harvard never looked back, scoring once in each of the remaining periods to secure the win. In stark contrast to last weekend’s losses to Rensselaer and Union in which the Crimson was plagued by penalties, Harvard managed to stay out of the box and score with even pressure on Friday night. “I was very pleased with the effort,” said...
...preserve their beauty. Through the character of J. Smith they attack modern society. And unlike their previous work, it is neither painful to listen to, nor is it so precious that their lyrics’ power dissipates in the clouds of mellifluence. Rather, the beauty present makes the stark message that Travis dispenses listenable. In Travis’s world, after all, if it weren’t for the brilliant melodies one would feel so, so alone. —Reviewer Sanders I. Bernstein can be reached at sbernst@fas.harvard.edu...