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...this shot would never make it beyond the arc. Harvard junior Tricia Tubridy batted the shot straight up in the air and the Crimson regained possession of both the ball and the game, moving...
...often, Harvard settled for an outside shot and the Scarlet Knights capitalized on the imbalance in Harvard’s game. The Crimson shot 9.5 percent from the field and 9.1 percent from behind the arc in the first half...
That failure is stunning. The Arab lands lie at the heart of an arc of crisis from Marrakech to Bangladesh. Autocracies, often dynastic, remain the principal form of government; economies are stagnant; violence is a common way of resolving political debate. Last summer the U.N. Development Programme commissioned a panel of regional experts to write an Arab Human Development Report. It was perhaps the most important volume published in 2002. "The wave of democracy that transformed governance in most of Latin America and East Asia in the 1980s and Eastern Europe and much of Central Asia in the late 1980s...
...world." But one common European criticism of the Bush Administration has weight. That is the claim that the U.S has not thought through how to implement its Wilsonian agenda--how to weave political, diplomatic and military power into a sustained effort to achieve lasting change in the arc of crisis. Europeans look at an American military force spread all over the globe in support of an uncertain political goal, and they know exactly what it is they see. They see an empire--and they fear the worst...
...Relations argues, "Nobody wants to acquire an empire, but we are acquiring one. The general idea that we have to undertake nation building in Iraq is now established." So it is in Afghanistan and Palestine; put those three nations together, and the beginning of an American imperium in the arc of crisis is plainly visible...