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...expected to duplicate last season’s success—the Crimson and Wildcats both won their league titles and advanced to the NCAA Frozen Four—have experienced some early-season setbacks. New Hampshire has lost three of its last four games, including two against No.1 Wisconsin. Last Saturday, the Wildcats were upset on the road by Colgate, who edged the Wildcats 5-4. Harvard brings a pedestrian 4-4-2 record to the contest, and is fresh off a Thanksgiving weekend sweep at the hands of No. 2 Minnesota. Despite the outcome, the Crimson played well...
...perchance his most legendary achievement,” in her speech, and described the section of his Senate Web site biography that details his famous touchdown and the subsequent offer to play for the Green Bay Packers. “Fortunately for all of us not from Wisconsin, he turned them down,” she said, telling the audience that he told the Green Bay coach he wanted to “‘go into another contact sport, politics.’”Kennedy and his wife, Victoria, took the stage as the Harvard University...
...cousin of the infamous William Ayers - I have followed the details of the election avidly, though in the past I found the process quite boring. Time did a great job of highlighting different components of the race with articles from a variety of viewpoints. Jayne Ayers, Dousman, Wisconsin...
Earlier this month, the insurance company WellPoint announced a program that will allow employees of a Wisconsin printing company to get coverage for non-emergency surgeries in India. It's a first for WellPoint, but puts the insurer in good company. Over the past few years, some U.S. insurance companies - dismayed at losing income from uninsured Americans who get cheap surergies abroad or clients who choose to pay out of pocket for discount foreign surgeries rather than expensive in-network co-pays - have announced plans to include foreign medical procedures among those covered by health plans...
...push to tighten drinking laws. But, recently, two campaigns with different aims have addressed a common problem: the poor state of drinking laws in the U.S. The Amethyst Initiative is a petition from university presidents that criticizes the current national drinking age of 21. Another group, All-Wisconsin Alcohol Risk Education (AWARE), is led by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and supports reforming Wisconsin’s notoriously lax drinking laws. While these coalitions may seem to have opposite goals—most significantly, the latter wants to reduce underage drinking—they...