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Early season inconsistency bedeviled the Harvard men’s golf team as it opened its spring season in Georgia on March 24-26 at the Jekyll Island Collegiate Invitational. The Crimson finished No. 16 among 24 teams on the Oleander Course, 82 shots behind eventual winner Methodist College. Freshman Michael Shore led Harvard with a No. 53 finish out of the 127 players present, carding rounds of 80, 83, and 72 on the par-72 layout. Shore continued to build on his solid fall, when he finished second on the team in stroke average. “Being...
...building on the momentum from last week when more than two million people took to the streets. Chirac's approval ratings dropped to 20% - a record low for recent French Presidents - while Villepin's slipped to 29%, just a year away from presidential elections. Ironically, the only short-term winner from the crisis appears to be Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy - front-runner in the 2007 presidential race that Villepin is expected to contest too, with Chirac's likely backing. Sarkozy called for "compromise" with protesters - a position at odds with his plan for vast reforms cutting far deeper than...
...played out at the ballot box, where Tymoshenko's eponymous party came in second behind Yanukovych. The new parliament turns out to be as split as society is - which, among many other things, is a proof of an honest and fair election. Since no single party, including the big winner Yanukovych, has the majority, a coalition government, with all the accompanying horse trading and compromises, will likely be formed...
...good midrange camera is Kodak's $399 EasyShare-One. It features a 3-in. flip-out, touch-sensitive preview screen. The camera has a wireless feature that makes it easy to send photos to a PC or printer. Another winner is Fujifilm's FinePix V10 ($349), which has comparable features, including a 3-in. screen and decent zoom lens. On the budget end, the $199 Norcent DC-520 provides a 2.5-in. screen, adequate zoom and picture quality comparable to midrange cameras...
Rudy Wiebe, author of more than 20 works and two-time winner of the Governor General?s Literary Award, has fashioned a career writing of Mennonite life in Canada?s west. In fact, many of his books are based on, or inspired by, his own family. His newest, the memoir Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (Knopf Canada; 391 pages) delves into his childhood in a remote Saskatchewan community...