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...beer and wine will go on sale next month for the first time. Resident Laine Vowell is asked, "You don't go nuts out here?" His answer: "Not at all. We visit a lot. Sunsets are beautiful. There are baby bobcats and other wildlife right in town. The deer trim my trees. It sounds trite, but we're like one big family...
...department that emphasizes concise writing, the name “Department of English and American Language and Literature” might be considered a bit clunky. As a result, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will vote on whether to trim the name to the more manageable “Department of English” at its next meeting on April 8. The proposal for the name change was passed yesterday by the Faculty Council, the 18-member governing body of the Faculty. The department itself already uses the shorter name, with several endowed professorships carrying the name...
...Canadian Arctic. The rest of us will be able to observe Steger's journey - intended to appeal to what he calls "emerging young leaders" below the age of 30 - on the website GlobalWarming101.com. "We want to take our audience to the front lines of global warming," says Steger, still trim as a Navy ship at 64. "We provide the spark with this expedition." (Listen to Steger talk about his mission and the impact of climate change on the Arctic on this week's Greencast...
...give the other team enough respect, and that’s what losers do.”Harvard seemed to get back in the groove in the third contest, as the Crimson picked up a 3-0 lead with sophomore Gil Weintraub serving. Endicott rallied to trim Harvard’s advantage to one point, 5-4. Junior captain Brady Weissbourd later responded with a kill to boost the Crimson’s lead to 8-5, and Harvard continued on to complete a 7-4 run, which kept Harvard ahead of the Gulls, 15-9. But Endicott quickly took...
...Army officials have made it clear they believe they can trim the 15-month deployments back to 12 months even if the troop level in Iraq remains at 130,000 for a period of time. That will give Petraeus and the Bush Administration, which wants to avoid any action that could jeopardize the past year's gains in Iraq, leverage to suspend the pullout for a time. Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island and a former Army officer, asked Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, at a hearing last week if doing that wouldn't break...