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Once again, Harvard was led by its freshman class, which has transitioned smoothly to the collegiate level, accounting for 64 percent of the team’s scoring this season. The rookies will have to play an even larger role on offense given the injury sustained by last season’s Ivy League leader in goals per game, Jess Halpern, who went down with a knee injury in the Crimson’s second contest of the season against Johns Hopkins...
...those images of powerful woman can, in themselves, be dangerous. Why? The media have really overrepresented how far women have come. We don't have a range of images of women, some of whom are working-class or single mothers or struggling. The media continue to [suggest] that full equality for women is a done deal. It makes it seem like feminist politics is no longer necessary. And that's so not true. Have women come a long way? Sure we have. But is there a lot more that needs to be done...
...joined in loose multiethnic and multisectarian coalitions. "Obviously there are still going to be candidates who just parrot what their leader says, but that's not going to be as effective this time," says an official with a U.S.-funded NGO that works on democracy training. Iraq's political class, she says, is learning that "they have to let the public define the issues, rather than defining the issues for them." (See pictures of Iraq's revival...
...start an additional one between Arabs and Kurds. But to centralize all power in a country with a history of totalitarianism has its own perils. That's why Iraqis will be watching their elections closely: not just to see the results but also to gauge whether their leadership class can accept the outcome of the vote and move forward peacefully. That will not be easy. "It's hard teaching people who have come out of a dictatorship to negotiate with each other," says the U.S. NGO worker. "In a dictatorship, all they know is win-lose. It takes time...
...quarter of Bangkok several miles away, where some 100,000 of them had gathered Sunday evening to demand Abhisit call a new election. As they marched, they were cheered on by workers who migrated to Bangkok from rural areas, and ignored or looked at with disdain by middle-class residents of the capital who fear a repeat of the violence the demonstrators wrought during a similar protest last April...