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Seven matches into its season, the winless Harvard women’s tennis team has already lost as many matches as the 2005 and 2006 squads dropped overall. Faced with yet another top opponent, the No. 61 Crimson (0-7) fell, 6-1, to No. 10 William and Mary (9-0) Friday afternoon in the Murr Center. “William and Mary is high-energy. They’re really enthusiastic; they’re constantly shouting, ‘Go Tribe,’” Harvard coach Gordon Graham said...
Harvard’s alumni governing body, the Board of Overseers, has elected former Vassar President Frances D. Fergusson and Boston lawyer William F. Lee ’72 to serve as president and vice chair of its executive committee, respectively, the University announced yesterday. Fergusson and Lee, who will both begin their one-year terms following Commencement, will succeed computer science professor Susan L. Graham ’64 and psychiatrist and novelist Paul A. Buttenwieser ’60. Elected as overseers in 2002, Fergusson and Lee are entering their final year as members of the board...
...negotiations, William Reilly, who was Environmental Protection Agency chief under the first President Bush, tells TIME the pre-deal deal with Environmental Defense and the Natural Resources Defense Council was not just a nicety. "Although this might have been doable without an environmental commitment, it would not have been done with us," says Reilly. "If you're going to do an energy investment today, you have to take into account the concerns people have about climate change." The motive is one part caring about the planet and one part turning around the p.r. nightmare that was threatening TXU's future...
...what historian Edward Pessen called the log-cabin myth: the personal-creation narrative that begins with humble roots. For some Presidents--the Roosevelts and J.F.K. spring to mind--the effort was clearly impossible. But other patricians in the White House have passed as plebians. In 1840 the supporters of William Henry Harrison called him the Log Cabin and Hard Cider candidate, after his presumed abode and favorite drink. In fact, Harrison was the son of Benjamin Harrison V, a wealthy Virginia planter who had signed the Declaration of Independence. The Bushes, father and son, used Texas as a font...
...alone because she thought that the volume and detail of the evidence would be too much for a jury to handle. She said that only a coroner could give the "careful and fully reasoned decision" that the inquests required. Her ruling seemed to go against the wishes of Princes William and Harry, who a week earlier had sent a letter to Butler-Sloss asking that the inquest "not only be open, fair and transparent, but that it should move swiftly to a conclusion...