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...spat, which will at least give Secretary of State Hillary Clinton something other than drug gangs to discuss during her visit to Mexico on Wednesday and Thursday, was kicked off when President Barack Obama signed a spending bill on March 11. Embedded in the bill was a clause that prohibits funds from being used to "implement, continue, promote or in any way permit" a two-year-old pilot program that allowed some Mexican trucks to operate in the U.S. Pressure for the clause had come directly from the Teamsters, who have long opposed competition from the Mexican 18-wheelers...
...Harvard women’s lacrosse team appeared to have made strides after its thrilling 14-12 win last Wednesday at Connecticut, but the Crimson (3-4) could not carry its momentum over to No. 12 Boston University’s Nickerson Field yesterday, falling to the Terriers (5-3), 17-12. BU’s McKinley Curro found the back of the net three times within the first five minutes of the game, and the Terriers never looked back...
Harvard heads to Albany on Wednesday for the final game of its three game road trip, before returning to Cambridge for a three-game home stand that includes Ivy rivals Yale and Penn...
...There are still many hurdles the various bills must overcome, and even some Senators have suggested the legislation is more about scaring AIG employees into giving the bonuses back. Senator Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican, Wednesday warned that the bills to take back the bonuses through a one-time special tax could face years of challenges in courts for violating attainder laws, which bar Congress from targeting individuals or small groups. "Of course" the government must get back the bonuses, but we've got to do it legally," Gregg told reporters...
Unlike some of his predecessors, Defense Secretary Robert Gates declines to bluff when he doesn't know the answer. When he was asked on Wednesday about the best strategy for the war in Afghanistan, he shrugged. "Unlike Iraq and some of the other problems, this is an area where I've been somewhat uncertain in my own mind what the right path forward is," he said with weapons-grade candor rarely heard from the Pentagon podium...