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Police officers from the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) collected fingerprints at the scene on Sunday, Besl and Leon said...
...field.”Harvard will start off its five-game weekend Friday taking on Oregon (9-7) and San Diego State (11-4). Saturday brings back-to-back clashes against host San Diego (3-7) followed by Fresno State (10-3). The Crimson wraps up the weekend on Sunday evening against CSU Bakersfield (6-6).Harvard is the only East Coast team in the tournament and the only one that will be starting its season this weekend. The other four teams have been playing in tournaments every weekend since Feb. 8 and are likely to be in mid-season...
There was no surprise, Sunday, when Cuba's parliament elected Raul Castro, 76, to succeed his ailing, 81-year-old brother, Fidel, as President. But pundits who had expected an infusion of youth into Cuba's Paleolithic hierarchy were roundly disappointed. The six vice presidential posts, for example, were taken by a group of men whose average age is 70 - including 77-year-old, hard-line communist ideologue Jose Ramon Machado as First Vice President...
...Raul's Sunday strategy was clearly meant to tamp down reform expectations -which the younger Castro, who has nudged Cuba's moribund economy toward capitalism and encouraged more open debate about its totalitarian politics, may have felt were rising too quickly for him to meet in the wake of Fidel's exit. "Raul has to proceed cautiously," concedes Brian Latell, a Cuba expert at the University of Miami and author of After Fidel. "In the past 18 months he has elevated popular expectations. Now he has to manage them...
...Raul may also be delaying deeper reform until a Communist Party congress can be held in Cuba late this year or early in 2009. Fidel still holds his post as head of the party, and Sunday's results were a reminder that its power clearly rivals - if not exceeds - that of Raul's position as head of state. If Raul and his allies can wrest that clout from the Fidelistas, change in Cuba is expected to have more breathing space. Until then, it stands to look more like an old man who needs a canister of oxygen...