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After initially being slow to react to the spreading fallout from the U.S. financial system meltdown, Asian policymakers in recent days have been forced to adopt a more aggressive approach to shielding their economies from further damage...
...They’re seeing all single coverage because [Luft is] getting doubled up a fair amount of time,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. While constantly being suffocated by a pair of defenders would understandably be frustrating for a lot of receivers, Luft brings a cerebral approach to football that allows him to view the game from a broader perspective.“He sees the field like a quarterback,” Pizzotti said. “If he’s double covered, he doesn’t complain about not getting the ball...
...Medicine and the Body in East Asia and in Europe,” plays across the screen, narrated by Shigehisa Kuriyama, a professor of East Asian studies. As the name implies, the class is a historical comparison of the body and medicine in East Asia and Europe, and its approach is anything but traditional. Kuriyama jettisons the traditional required term paper in favor of newer pedagogical measures—making movies and podcasts. The approach may mark a new path for General Education at Harvard. THE BODY, REDISCOVERED
...East Asia, “ Xu said. “The particular way of thinking about the tree may be a way of thinking about the hand—does the hand have any meaning if it’s not connected to the body?” Kuriyama approaches the body and its functions from a different angle than, say, the life sciences. “We are brought up in a certain way of looking at the body. We take science courses that take an objective approach—the cells, the reactions, but on the other hand...
...suspending his campaign and even threatening to skip the first debate to get "in the arena," as his hero Teddy Roosevelt put it. He returned to Washington and attempted to demonstrate a type of leadership on the financial crisis that would distinguish him from Obama's more hands-off approach. The effort to help craft a bipartisan bailout plan had muddled results, mainly because McCain's influence among House Republicans, the crucial voting bloc, was limited. Nonetheless, after an initial bailout plan was crafted, his campaign declared victory, saying McCain had helped give the House GOP a real bargaining position...