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...begin in quiet Alstead, N.H., on a late summer day. It doesn’t build up to an extraordinary afternoon in Manchester, Conn.If anything, Morgan Brown’s place on the Harvard baseball squad at all—forget, for the moment, his rapid ascent to Baseball America’s 2006 All-Ivy First Team—is the tale that begs to be told.In late 2001, Brown was a senior at Fall Mountain Regional High School, where The Boston Globe had already once named him “Skier of the Year?...
Bernanke’s ascent to the nation’s most influential economic policy post came as two other Harvard alumni were poised to join him on the Federal Reserve’s seven-member board...
...certainly not celebrating the hardship that many Palestinian families will face. We acknowledge the difficult choice that Palestinians faced at the polls, but we cannot accept, on a categorical basis, that our own tax dollars be given to any authority that promotes terrorism.Hamas’ democratic ascent to the helm of the Palestinian Authority highlights an underlying tension in U.S. policy of promoting democracy abroad. It is important to recognize, however, that supporting the democratic process does not necessarily entail supporting its outcomes. One can uphold the right of the Palestinian people to elect their government while disapproving...
MOISES NAIM Editor in chief of Foreign Policy The optimistic view is that there is a silver lining to Hamas' ascent to power: there is nothing more educational and transformational than running a government in a poor country. The pessimistic view is that this will be the last election in Palestine for a long time, that Hamas' win will not go down in history as an example of the global march toward democracy but as another instance of the "one person, one vote ... one time" syndrome. It is too soon to tell which of these will be correct. The experiments...
...Mark Souder, a Republican U.S. Congressman from Indiana and a member of the Canada-U.S. Inter-Parliamentary Group, predicts the principal consequence of the Conservatives' ascent to power will be a new "tone of mutual respect" between the two capitals. Harper's Arctic admonition could rekindle the old doubts, but improvements in the U.S.-Canada relationship will probably come through a mutual recognition of the new "geopolitical realities" in an energy-hungry and security-conscious North America, says Professor John Thompson, who teaches Canadian studies at North Carolina's Duke University. And no one is better positioned to exploit...