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...getting tired.”HARVARD 1, BU 0Sometimes, doing things right just takes a little time.Harvard opened its season at Ohiri Field with 100 minutes of scoreless play before Wideroff scored in the second overtime period to lead the Crimson to a 1-0 victory over cross-town rival Boston University. Overtime matchups weren’t kind to the Crimson last season, as Harvard went 0-3-1 in extra time.But if its first long-game test of 2007 is any indication of future success, then the team should be celebrating at midfield much more often...
...Another difference: Reporters are the only ones asking questions. These are "rallies," not "town halls," though McCain has often said he prefers the give-and-take, and surprises, that come with opening up the floor to the audience. His says that's where he shines as well, but in New Hampshire, in particular, where anti-war sentiment runs high, an open forum could pull McCain off of his carefully crafted message. In Concord, he says he'll take questions if there's time. A young man approaches him and says, in the slightly quavering voice of someone not used...
...Physically and psychologically, the town is stuck in a strange twilight between the Brezhnev-era Soviet Union and the modern European Union. In Minsk, the capital 250 miles away, the government retains the sheen of its totalitarian past. In 2006, Aleksandr Lukashenko, a Soviet-era official who claims to have been the only member of the Belarus legislature to vote against the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, was elected to his third term as president. With his command of 84% of the vote and a tight leash on opposition parties, he has good reason to expect that he will...
...Although taxes are levied on the properties, none of the revenue is spent locally; all of the money goes to Minsk. Nor would there be any local structure such as a town council or community board to spend tax revenues. In the old days, a rural soviet (committee) would have met regularly. But attendance was enforced, and everyone understood that the proceedings were largely meangingless. Nowadays, no one bothers...
...There are small exceptions, of course. Recently the provincial transportation authority advised the community that the lone asphalt road into town was dangerously rutted. If it was not fixed soon, the bus which brought many dachniki to their summer retreats would not be able to complete its route...