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...Duboe said. “We do have a long way to go. We’re far from perfect and we really have to bear down and take it one game at a time. Our age down the line hopefully won’t affect us in some bigger games and we’ll hopefully keep carrying this attitude that we have into games against Cornell and Princeton.” —Staff writer Elizabeth A. Joyce can be reached at eajoyce@fas.harvard.edu...
...negotiations with Beijing, and the influx of Han Chinese settling in Tibet have pushed Tibetans to breaking point, says Sangay, who grew up in exile. "The frustration level has reached very, very high," he says. "If you study violent movements, when these reach a threshold when it starts to affect not only political issues but also bread and butter issues, then it crosses a line and the response becomes much more aggressive and violent and that's what's happened here...
...strong yen. The exchange rate of the yen to other currencies - such as the euro - still shows depreciation. But the dollar-yen pair heavily weights consumer sentiment and the stock market, says Takahide Kiuchi, chief economist at Nomura Securities, and the rate right now has an overall negative affect...
...ideas we explore are wide-ranging but affect all of us. John Cloud explains how the idea of authenticity--we know it when we see it (or at least we think we do)--is shaping not only our consumer culture but also the presidential campaign. Amanda Ripley explores how counter-terrorism experts are using former terrorists to prevent the radicalization of new ones. Bryan Walsh has a fascinating piece about the idea of geoengineering: how, instead of fixing or curing the earth, we might re-engineer it on a massive scale to solve climate change. Other pieces include Justin...
...character. Brosnan is equally nuanced as the worst best friend who tries to take away the girl. 007 is a convincing Casanova at whatever age, even though he has to pull it off without the accent. Harry’s emotional crisis sets off subsequent emotional conflicts that affect each of the four two-faced leading characters. Writer and director Ira Sachs suggests that married life is a web of emotions that makes people deceive their loved ones. The movie itself is a deception, however; marriage, as any gender studies concentrator could tell you, is a contract that binds together...