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However, the speed and depth with which future reforms will be implemented is less clear. For years, students and faculty have petitioned to change the structure and practices of the Board to no avail. While the Board may not survive in its current form, Jon T. Staff V ’10, chair of the Ad Hoc Ad Board Committee, notes that enacting changes may take time since “Harvard does move slowly, and unpredictably...
...Tokyo, Moscow, Beijing and now Shanghai, I have been covering North Korea - to the extent that a journalist can cover a place he has actually never been to. Three times previously, I had applied for an official journalist's visa to do reporting in the North - to no avail. Partly, I've always assumed, that's because I'm a U.S. citizen, and we have been technically at war with the North since a 1953 armistice. Partly it may be because some of the things I've written over the years haven't exactly been flattering to the family dynasty...
...Problem with Clinton is that she can't win in November, in which case all her bullet-point plans will be of no avail. While no one doubts her intellectual gifts, there is a contrived quality about her that is no match for Obama's aura of authenticity, which is the mark of an effective leader and key to winning the general election. Scott Willett, New York City...
...Classic Princeton offense works to no avail. The Tigers run down the shot clock but can't get an open look. Off the rebound, the Crimson drive back down the court but freshman Kyle Fitzgerald can't put in the easy gimme layup. C'mon kid. [Harvard 6, Princeton...
Back in New Hampshire, McCain held press conferences after every event, taking questions from reporters more often than he'd rub his lucky nickel. In Iowa, he would talk to scribes for hours on his bus, get off and then 30 minutes later hold an avail. The journalists would look at each other, bemused and defeated, with no questions left...