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...difference.” It’s tough to speculate whether the Crimson would have lost to Lafayette and Cornell with a healthy Dawson. Saturday at least proved that, first, his legs can keep Harvard in the game; and second, he isn’t ready to cede the title of premier Ivy League back to Hartigan just yet. —Staff writer Lisa J. Kennelly can be reached at kennell@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Lisa Kennelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dawson Rolls in Harvard Loss | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

...adventure. But to Beijing, the prize is worth the price: symbolically, a victory in space would be a rousing validation of its increasingly credible claim to be Asia's true economic and technological power, a status Japan has boasted for most of the last century and is loath to cede. The issue now, as China prepares to increase its advantage in manned space flight to 2-0, is whether Japan will soon experience a "Sputnik moment" and feel it has no choice but to redouble its efforts as a matter of national honor?or whether it will continue to dedicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia's Space Race | 10/10/2005 | See Source »

Junior tailback Clifton Dawson had a bounce in his step as he decelerated in the endzone after cruising in for the two-point conversion to put Harvard up 28-21 and give the Crimson a lead it would not cede...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Back in Business | 9/19/2005 | See Source »

Already it's clear that this debacle was more than an act of God. This country's emergency operations, awesome in their potential, are also frighteningly interdependent. The locals are in charge--until they get overwhelmed. Then they cede control to the feds--but not entirely. The scarier things get, the fuzzier the lines of authority become. As TIME's investigation shows, at every level of government, there was uncertainty about who was in charge at crucial moments. Leaders were afraid to actually lead, reluctant to cost businesses money, break jurisdictional rules or spawn lawsuits. They were afraid, in other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 4 Places Where the System Broke Down | 9/11/2005 | See Source »

...When Sharon, a longtime proponent of the settlements and a key figure in the founding of Gush Katif, announced that Israel would cede some of that Biblical land, religious Zionists questioned whether the great redemption was coming, after all. ?It's an ideological and spiritual crisis,? says Rabbi Yehuda Gilad, a religious Zionist leader. ?All this faith in redemption is collapsing.? Goldschmidt, the Ganei Tal farmer, resolves that quandary simply by asserting that ?Sharon's not a Zionist any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza Dispatch: 'Sharon is Going to Destroy This Place' | 7/19/2005 | See Source »

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