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...even odds-on favorites for diplomatic success are in trouble. Russian President Vladimir Putin had seemed to want a deal to bookend his presidency, which ends May 7, but the divide on missile defense proved unbridgeable at talks in Sochi this month. At home, Democrats emboldened by Bush's weak numbers and their own rising electoral prospects in November are loath to hand Bush a win even on trade deals with South Korea and Panama, which as recently as last fall had seemed more achievable than the Colombia deal...
...entire way, and there’s no better way to go out in your senior year than undefeated in the Ivy League, winning at home, and headed down to New Haven to play for everything.”With a win in The Game, the seniors can bookend their college careers with Ivy League championships. In 2004, the Crimson went 10-0 on the way to a championship season.The biggest highlight for the senior class on this memorable day came from standout Corey Mazza. The receiver, playing for the fifth consecutive year after an injury-shortened season...
...They really set the tone of the game.” The quick tally marked the first of two Providence goals in the first half—the second coming after a two penalty corners with under a minute to go before the mid-play break. Between the Friar bookend goals of the first frame, junior back Francine Polet slapped in a shot off a penalty corner to even the score at one and earn the Crimson’s only goal of the game. Polet’s tally, her second of the season, was assisted by midfielders sophomore...
...legislation’s passage comes as a long-anticipated bookend to the four-year-long effort to replace the Core. But the work of implementing the new curriculum is just beginning, and many questions remain unanswered as the Faculty gears up for its biggest curricular transition in a generation.The approved legislation provides a partial timeline for the implementation of the new program. The committee that administers the Core is slated to be dissolved at the end of the coming academic year—but the legislation does not spell out when the Core itself will cease to exist.Dean...
...bookend this plaint with allusions, we turn to George Orwell, who offered in Nineteen Eighty-Four a picture of the future as “a boot stomping on the human face—forever.” Sadly, that future is now, and it’s across from the Barker Center...