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...tallied both game-winning goals for Harvard. HARVARD 8, GEORGE WASHINGTON 6Perlman, who is also a Crimson Magazine chair, was solid in the net for Harvard throughout the weekend and had arguably her best performance in the opener. The team, precariously clinging to a two-goal advantage, received a swell of momentum after Perlman stuffed a penalty shot from five meters out with three minutes remaining to seal the Colonials’ fate and ensure the close victory. “She played a phenomenal weekend, even though she was sick,” senior co-captain Vivian Liao said...
...fight on in this regard against Beijing." Still, organizer Lee Cheuk Yan, a legislator from the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, points out that the rally was also intended to send a clear signal to Beijing that the relatively small number of demonstrators on the streets could drastically swell if the mainland reneged on its timetable promises. The next battle is to make sure that the electoral systems necessary for democratic elections are in place well before 2017. Mainland officials have hinted that they would like the current functional constituencies - professional voting blocs appointed by Beijing - to remain...
...students need not have their entire course plan picked out ahead of time. They should be able to change their concentration and shop classes. Perhaps, then, the two full-time staff members in the AEO and the three full-time workers in the ATL are not enough. Both offices swell their ranks with part-time help when the need arises, but given the number of students with disabilities, additional permanent staff seems like a worthy investment. No one attends Harvard to be coddled, and disabled students don’t want to hear the mantra, “take four...
...requires his own special skill set, and in part because - as Charles Foster Kane said about running a newspaper - Charlie thinks it would be fun to bankroll a counterinsurgency. In the cheerful bravado of a can-do Texan, he thinks: Hell, why not? When Charlie masterminds it, war is swell...
...Regardless of these preparations, much of Bangladesh will be transformed if current global warming trends continue. As the sea level rises, vast swaths of coastal land will disappear in coming decades - as much as 18% of Bangladesh's current landmass, according to the World Bank. And as the rivers swell with water from melting Himalayan glaciers, land in the center of the country will also disappear. Those effects, combined with more frequent and stronger cyclones, could spark an exodus of climate refugees fleeing for the cities and for other countries...