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Some Catholics on campus will be making the trek to Washington, D.C. or New York City this week to hear Pope Benedict XVI speak on his first visit to the U.S. Danielle C. Kijewski ’11 is going to see the Pope in D.C.’s new National Stadium, one of his many destinations in the coming days. Other stops include Ground Zero and Yankee Stadium in New York City. “I am very much excited and inspired by his coming,” Kijewski said. “This is a time when...
...sense of dread that haunted Nepal's trek to the polls is fading fast. "The mood is almost euphoric," says Kunda Dixit, editor of the English-language Nepali Times and a prominent democracy advocate. More than half of the registered electorate in Kathmandu voted in just the first few hours of polling. Despite a scattering of incidents-one candidate was gunned down, an eight others were killed in factional fighting-only 33 of 20,882 voting stations nationwide reported that polling was disrupted...
...COOP exists specifically to make your life miserable, with crimson baby booties and Harvard bath towels—even Harvard teddy bears. Your family dinners have been interrupted for years by Harvard students calling to ask for donations. When you were in eighth grade, you had to trek up to Cambridge for your mother’s 25th reunion. It rained the whole time, and you had to listen to fifty year-old Pitches trying to recreate jazz standards.And yet you still applied. After hearing about your uncle’s halcyon days in Eliot or your father?...
...Simmons--took in $30 million in its first three days and eventually grossed $63 million. Last fall's Why Did I Get Married?, an ensemble drama about a couples' retreat, made $55 million. And next year he will appear in his first film by someone else: J.J. Abrams' Star Trek prequel, as the head of the Starfleet Academy...
During the bike-riding craze of the 1970s, businessman Richard Burke, an avid runner, sensed a market for a high-quality, American-made bike to compete with then dominant Japanese imports. In 1976 in a red barn in Waterloo, Wis., Burke started Trek with five employees. Trek, the bike on which Lance Armstrong rode to his Tour de France victories, is now the country's largest bikemaker. Burke was 73 and died of complications following heart surgery...