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...have a large margin of error. Certainly, not having one of our better players didn’t help us.”A week ago, the Crimson took a 47-26 lead into the half, but this time it entered the half down, 36-26. Despite several brief spurts in the second half, the deficit would never fall below six. With the team down, 59-49, and just under six minutes left, junior forward Evan Harris drove for a lay-up and a foul, making the free throw to cut the Big Green lead to seven. Harris then forced...
...presidential hopefuls. It doesn’t help that her natural temperament is only slightly warmer than a New Hampshire winter; in a college letter, she perceptively defined herself as “Hillary Rodham, acknowledged agnostic intellectual liberal, emotional conservative.” But for a brief moment in a tacky coffee shop on the campaign trail, surrounded by 16 undecided women voters and 100 television cameras, Hillary’s glistening eyes offered a moment of revelation. Politics should be dynamic and complex, honest, and irreducible to simple stereotypes. The same thing goes for our next president. Jessica...
...Designing and supporting advising programs in a place where faculty, administrators, and students constantly tell us how busy they are is a challenge. What we promote (and desire fervently) is that students and advisers spend time together to build effective, substantive relationships. Advising does not arise from brief encounters. It comes from honest, even probing conversations, which require some trust and commitment on the part of both people who are together constructing an advising relationship...
...Sunnis) are wary of (Shi'ite) Iran's growing power but have been reluctant to side with U.S. calls for a new U.N. resolution. Last year's U.S. intelligence report, which downplayed the Iranian nuclear threat, did little to help U.S. credibility on the issue. So even a brief act of aggression by Iran became welcome evidence for the U.S. case. Skeptics say Washington sees in the encounter as much a p.r. opportunity as a bona fide threat. "The fact that it comes a couple of days before the President sets off on his trip raises questions," says Professor Gary...
...stress was getting to her when her eyes welled with tears missed the fact that to many of us, she looked more human and less calculating than the candidate we'd seen up until then. On election night, she commanded the stage. We saw her husband for only a brief embrace, and the familiar faces from the previous administration that had flanked her in Iowa were absent...