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...grown in size and strength to the point that Saudi leaders are terrified of confronting it head on. The religious sheiks give the al Saud Dynasty a vital cloak of protection against political opponents. So does its responsibility for hosting the annual Hajj pilgramage to Mecca, which got underway last week with some 2.5 million Muslims from around the world...
...Olympic cosmos at the same time, a 5'4", 34-year-old man named Derek Parra churns several swift laps in the 1,500-meter speed skate race, and charges toward the finish, hoping to hold on. Meantime, the Games' marquee event, women's figure skating, is well underway. The usual suspects - Irina Slutskaya of Russia and American teenagers Sasha Cohen and Sarah Hughes - are already placed 1-2-3 as the elegant 21-year-old veteran Michelle Kwan skates to center ice to begin her short program...
...We’re delaying discretionary spending where we can, but we don’t feel the need to cancel anything major that is already underway,” Rapier says...
Knowles has the power to move the Varsity athletic programs that are currently using the MAC (fencing, volleyball, wrestling) to appropriate facilities across the River, a key step in getting the construction project underway. (Just one small indication of Jeremy’s authority—the Department of Harvard Athletics reports directly to him). For the next five months, only the British guy can release the big FAS money that will get the MAC rolling. So much rests on one individual. Such is the structure of Harvard...
...tenure, FAS has spent money left and right, and on improvements that really affect students’ quality of life, too. The renovated Harvard Hall, Holden Chapel and Boylston Hall provide gleaming classroom space, and a $22 million, 32,000 square foot addition to the Science Center will get underway this summer. The most powerful man at Harvard has even agreed to renovate the dilapidated Hasty Pudding Building (a project now expected to cost well over $10 million) and ruminated to the Faculty about converting the Inn at Harvard into academic space. And then there is the slow to happen...