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...first game after exams, Harvard showed flashes of its ability in a 74-65 victory against Cornell in Ithaca. Having taken care of the tougher New York team, the Crimson then fell in the final seconds to an inferior Columbia squad, 57-55, as Stehle’s tip at the buzzer failed to drop. The team returned home and lost 70-57 to eventual league champion Penn, putting Harvard on the verge of a crippling fourth league loss...
...UCHSR] said we’re not going to have anything to do with it, because we think you should divest in all circumstances, but eventually I was sent, saying ‘we’ll be part of the process, but the University needs to be tougher on corporations that wish to do business in South Africa and play a more active role in making those corporations a more positive force of change,’” says Waldman...
...pair of infantry-bound cadets swig beer and shake off their doubts. What, after all, could be tougher than West Point, where failure to have your books arranged by descending height on your desk can earn you hours of forced marching in the rain? "That's how they get us fired up for Iraq," says one. "After four years here, anything's better." Another suspects that for all the training, they still don't know what they are in for. "West Point is an academic institution, not a training ground," he says. "I think a lot of us are going...
...fire and brimstone is part of the spd's effort to woo back voters disillusioned by the government's own economic reforms. Last Friday, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder himself joined the apocalyptic debate by calling on his ministers to examine whether hedge funds should be subject to tougher regulation. The remarks are striking, given that the same government authorized hedge funds to operate in Germany only last year. The immediate pretext for Schröder's change of heart was last week's ouster of Werner G. Seifert, the long-serving chief executive of the German stock exchange...
...wasn’t easy growing up in the South Boston, where he learned to deal with tough streets and tougher people. Still, he worked his way up to Suffolk University on Beacon Hill for his bachelor’s degree and then into the police force...