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Those early losses put Harvard in a tenuous position as it begins the toughest five-game stretch of its season. After Boston College tonight, the Crimson will host No. 8 UMass-Amherst on Saturday, travel to Princeton on Tuesday and play in a holiday tournament on Dec. 27 against No. 6 St. Cloud State and either Clarkson or Providence. Of the six possible teams Harvard could face in its five upcoming games, three are nationally ranked, and two of the others have already defeated the Crimson...
...optimistic and youthful, recording each moment for some heavenly record. However, the angels’ quiet, subdued mission is interrupted when one of the angels, Damiel, falls in love with a trapeze artist Marion. Shot by renowned cinematographer Henri Alekan, Wenders’s film captures the transcendent and tenuous moments of being alive with startling beauty. It won him a Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival and was the inspiration for the Hollywood remake City of Angels. German with English subtitles. 7 p.m. Tickets $8; $6 students. Harvard Film Archive...
...cites the lack of legal training as its main reason for barring first and second year law students from participation in the program. According to PLAP’s supervising lawyer John Fitzpatrick, this excuse is tenuous at best. “A lot of time and resources are invested in training before students go out and do their first hearing,” Fitzpatrick told The Crimson. Fitzpatrick helps to prepare new law students for participation in PLAP through one-on-one training; a mentoring program also connects young law students to more experienced program participants. Fitzpatrick noted that...
...politicians have traditionally maintained an air of Gandhian poverty, dressing in hand-spun clothes and driving battered domestic Ambassador automobiles. Mallya, by contrast, openly celebrates his wealth, and with his wife and two daughters in America and a son at school in England, his connection to India sometimes seems tenuous. Nonetheless, Mallya ran for an indirect election (in which votes are cast only by members of state legislatures) to India's largely ceremonial upper house of Parliament in 2000. And although he lost his first time around...
Besides, in helping other countries escape poverty, we may be in for a pleasant surprise. Although the connection between growth and democracy can be tenuous in the short run, in the long run, as Samuel Hungtington has pointed out, “high levels of economic wealth are associated with high levels of equity, stability, [and] democracy...