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...whole time. If I can get a good plant, then I really get into the air well.” “She’s a very technical sound jumper,” Saretsky said. “We wanted to give her more speed on her approach??Overall, she’s taken a big step forward.” While Christensen easily handled her fellow Ivy League competitors this season, the athlete known for her work ethic and motivation continued to work on jumping even higher above the rest of the field. Christensen?...
...December 27—as both the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama and Israeli elections began to approach??Israel responded to a recent increase in rocket attacks out of Gaza with a series of bombardments on Hamas targets that has now lasted almost two weeks. The Israeli Defense Force followed the bombardments with an incursion into the territory after night fell on Saturday. Most sources now report the death toll in Gaza at around 550 and the United Nations has stated that at least a quarter of these people are civilians. The strikes have been successful...
...with the support of the Harvard community, they should be big meets, especially once February rolls around [for the Heptagonal Championships].” Co-captain Becky Christensen wasted no time automatically qualifying for the NCAA Championships with a personal-best 1.85-meter jump. Despite taking a short approach??seven steps instead of the usual 10—the jump earned her a victory in the high jump. “It felt really good,” Christensen said. “I’ve never really taken full advantage of my full approach...
...these were errors for which he has repeatedly and publicly apologized. His very reason for speaking at the conference was to provoke discussion in the academic community on how to provide women with equal opportunity to hold senior faculty positions in the sciences. His intentions were genuine, and his approach??to address a pressing issue with proactive analysis and creative solutions rather than idle talk and reliance on old thinking—was ideal, if poorly executed in this isolated case.His regrettable and oft-publicized remark aside, Summers applied the same approach of intellectual provocation throughout his stewardship...
...that the first goal of the next president will be to bring about transparency and accountability in America’s financial system. Both qualities are necessary for an effective economic policy, he said. He also emphasized the importance of the elimination of the “laissez-faire approach?? in which the driving rules were “whatever you could get away with” and “denial.” In addition, Suskind argued that the next president will have to battle to win the hearts and minds of the rest...