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...thought of that line while watching the eight megabankers who showed up for Wednesday's House Financial Services Committee hearing. There was good theater in the spectacle of these potentates getting a congressional word-whipping as if they were the chastised bosses of the tobacco industry or a poisoned-peanut-butter factory. Real old-timers who tuned in to the charade might have gone dewy-eyed in reminiscence of Depression days. That's when bandits like Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were outlaw heroes, and the big villains were the bankers, who foreclosed on homes and farms, sent widows...
...Harvard Women’s Squash team (8-1, 5-1 Ivy) put an exclamation point on an exemplary season with a 6-3 victory over rival No. 5 Yale (9-4, 3-4 Ivy) Wednesday evening at the Barnaby Courts to close out the regular season.The victory helped assuage a heartbreaking 5-4 defeat to No. 1 Princeton last weekend and restored positive momentum to the team as it prepares to host the Howe Cup Championship this weekend.With No. 1 sophomore June Tiong already out with an injury, Crimson Coach Satinder Bajwa took a risk resting No. 3 freshman...
Adams House will bar non-residents from its dining hall Wednesday nights in an effort to reduce crowding and build community, the House announced last week. The Wednesday “community nights,” which begin today, come in response to dinner-time congestion that frequently plagues Adams. The dining hall—built to accommodate 220—consistently draws swarms of non-residents due to the House’s convenient location. “We’re in the eye of the storm,” said David A. Seley, the Adams dining hall...
...School professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and Law School lecturer Stephanie Robinson have been chosen as the new masters of Winthrop House, and the first black House masters in Harvard history, College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds announced Wednesday afternoon...
Former Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was sworn in as Prime Minister by President Robert Mugabe Wednesday and urged his countrymen to unite in an effort to revive the country. "For too long, Zimbabwe has endured violent political polarization," he told a rally of thousands in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare. "This must end today. We can no longer afford the violence of brother on brother. Let's put our differences aside. Everyone is hungry. We have to heal our nation by forgiving our brother." Tsvangirai acknowledged that working with Mugabe would be difficult; he could forgive but not forget...