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...accomplishing what had been one of the Crimson’s main objectives for the weekend—beating Princeton. “I do pretty much anything I can not to let a Princeton swimmer beat me,” Meyer said. Ivy League Championship competition began on Thursday and continued through Saturday with preliminaries raced each morning and finals held in the evenings. The Crimson accumulated 1,311.5 points over the three-day meet to finish second overall in a close battle with the Tigers (1663.5). Harvard claimed multiple first-place finishes and broke seven meet records...
...group of concerned Harvard alumni organized protests outside of the Harvard Club of New York last Thursday, demanding that the administration save Harvard jobs. While the University has not officially announced employee layoffs, budgetary cutbacks are expected to result in job losses for workers employed through subcontractors. The protests in New York were organized in collaboration with the “No Layoffs” campaign organized by the Student Labor Action Movement on campus, according to Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09, an active member of SLAM and an inactive Crimson editorial writer...
Slumdog Sights. Qantas is starting up service from seven Australian cities - including Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney - to Mumbai starting June 2. The flights take off three times per week, connecting through Singapore. Outbound flight to Mumbai leave on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Return flights operate on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday...
...standards are set by the Environmental Protection Agency. But President Obama, moving to fulfill one of his campaign promises to the state of California, has asked the EPA to consider revising Bush-era rulings so California can impose its own limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from motor vehicles. On Thursday, the EPA held public hearings on a possible revision, and it will accept written comments until April 6 with a decision, hopefully, soon to follow. But the EPA has already indicated its discomfort with the original decision made several years ago to deny California the right. Environmentalists, take heart...
...seen since August 2003, Iraq remains a dangerous, combustible place - and there's been an uptick in violence in recent weeks. Some 258 Iraqis were killed in February, a 35% increase over January's total of 191, which was the lowest figure since 2003, according to government statistics. On Thursday a car bombing at a livestock market in Hilla, south of Baghdad, left 12 people dead. Meanwhile, American and Iraqi security forces continue to try to rout out the remnants of Al-Qaeda in the restive northern city of Mosul and in the northeastern Diyala province...