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...just thought it would be fun,” said Kenneth H. Gotlieb ’10, a physics concentrator in Mather House and co-president of the Society of Physics Students, which organized this clash of the titans. “Plus, we’ve got a score to settle with EPS, so we thought it’d be better to take it out on the Frisbee field...
...example, in the president’s June 2009 speech from Cairo to the Islamic world, he quoted the Koran several times and even started with the Islamic greeting, “salaam aleikum.” The clash of Western and Islamic countries marks a major fracture in international peace. Thus, Obama’s stated desire to gain a better understanding of Islamic culture is a big step forward for everyone. Speaking in places such as Ghana and Germany, he has made a similar effort to change people’s entrenched assumptions about conflict in many regions...
...Silver. Hmmm. Hardly has that thought sunk in before I'm back to watching Jim prance across the stage, dipping into geopolitics - "whenever in history an established power is being surpassed by a rising power, they clash," he said, referring to a potential U.S.-China faceoff - and giving the audience a peek at what may be his only anxiety, water. Or rather, China's inadequate supply of it. "If they run out of water, all bets are off - it's the one thing you can't do without," he says. Boy, this guy is smart...
Update the river to the Charles and test whether sports fans can pronounce the word “destroyer” to rhyme with Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia, and we can brace ourselves for another regional clash of Biblical proportions—if we forget our heads and mistake sport for anything more than amusement. Bostonians and Harvard peers often forget civility and manners in their fanatical support for their own team...
...Boston Red Sox will play. Fans of both teams will fret over those games, but with one eye they’ll inevitably be looking ahead to the next round—when Boston and New York will almost inevitably meet in what looks to be an epic clash...