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Harvard College has contracted with the same storage and shipping company that elicited complaints from dozens of undergraduates who had used it to store their belongings last summer. The move has sparked skeptical reactions from students, many of whom will have to use the service this year.The College considered a range of other storage companies, and even engaged in negotiations with one, but ultimately decided to stay with last year’s choice, Collegeboxes, Associate Director of Residential Operations Zachary M. Gingo ’98 wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday.Gingo said administrators elected...
...Bishop Allen and a Harvard student band, The Sinister Turns. Mates of State is a Connecticut-based husband-wife duo whose music is marked by “quirky, rhythmic music and their male/female vocal harmony,” according to the press release. The group spent last summer touring with Spoon and Death Cab for Cutie. “I’ve been dropping the name for a couple days now, and either people haven’t heard of them or they’re extremely excited,” Goldenberg said. “That?...
...Asian Association, the Darfur Action Group, the Woodbridge Society, the Harvard South Asian Association, the Harvard College Democrats, and the Harvard Republican Club. Some in attendance took issue with the timing of the list’s delivery, coming only a few weeks before students leave campus for the summer and just after the University responded to a major UC campaign for calendar reform. “It is unfair to say we’re being ignored, given that we’ve just heard back,” said Rebecca R. Gong ’08, president...
...Aviv's Rabin Square to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Israeli democracy appears to be alive and kicking. The protest was sparked by last Monday's report by the official Winograd Commission that was scathing in its critique of Olmert's disastrous leadership during last summer's war against Hizballah, which cost the lives of more than 150 Israelis. Even Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah - presumably in a bunker somewhere in Beirut - expressed his admiration for the Israeli government. "They study their defeat in order to learn from it," he said, unlike Arab regimes that "do not probe...
...Perhaps, however, the listless Israeli public shares some of the blame with its politicians for the current state of affairs. Thursday night - the beginning of the weekend here - was business as usual for most people in this beach city preparing for the summer season, unmoved by the protest in Rabin Square. "The country has already moved on," said a drinker next to me in a crowded bar on Ben Yehuda street. "No one cares about the war in Lebanon anymore." With suicide bombings down and the stock market up, much of the country seems blissfully undisturbed by the growing chaos...