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...expectation is that we are going to be seeing an increase in manufacturing, and that is certainly a shift from where the economy has been headed," says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a liberal-leaning think tank in Washington. "Clearly you are going to have people moving down the pay scale...
...Harvard women’s hockey team (3-2-2, 3-2-2 ECAC) had to settle for a 5-5 draw Friday at Bright Hockey Center against Colgate (7-7-1, 2-3-1) after an aggressive three periods. The game was marked by the Raiders’ persistence and physically aggressive play on both sides of the puck. Despite a 4-1 lead early in the second period, the Crimson could not hold back a hard-fought Colgate comeback to tie up the game. Harvard mounted an aggressive offensive attack, but could not get the job done...
...Choice” has indeed been a watchword in campus curricular conversations of late. While the recently-concluded curricular review dithered about outlining a vision for general education in the 21st century, most students’ complaints continued to center less on pedagogical philosophy than on the paucity of options for fulfilling Core requirements. Incoming students no longer have to choose—as we seniors, the last of an older generation, had to—their concentration in their freshman year, ostensibly to permit, through more freedom to sample various disciplines, thus a more meaningful choice of study. Departments...
...culpability for Mexico's narco-calamity more seriously. Even U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza this week took issue with Washington's complacency about curbing gringo demand for cocaine and the smuggling of Yanqui guns to Mexican drug gangs. "The truth is, Mexico would not be at the center of cartel activity, or be experiencing this level of violence," Garza said in San Antonio, "were the U.S. not the largest consumer of illicit drugs and the main supplier of weapons to cartels...
...first real problem for Martine Aubry will be that she'll be facing a deeply split party, and won't have a big majority or resounding mandate to back her up when challenged," says Pascal Perrineau, director for the Center for Study of French Political Life in Paris. "The second problem is, Ségolène Royal is a very determined and strong politician who believes she's the person to lead the PS back to national power. She won't simply fold up her plans and projects, sit down, and be quiet...