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...like to say we held our own,” said Lindsay M. Garber ’11, who organized the event for the Democrats. “We kept it close a couple times, but they were very clearly the winners and we gave them props for that...
...teaching fellows. “Because it’s such a small department, you don’t get lost at all,” Frisina said.Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, a lecturer in History and Literature, said that the concentration is “as close to an intellectual utopia as you can get in higher education,” citing the strong student-teacher relationships.In History and Literature, sophomores are assigned one of their two sophomore tutorial leaders as their department adviser—resulting in approximately a 4:1 faculty to advisee ratio, according...
...Princeton scored again in the fifth inning, when Connor hit a solo home run to right field.The Crimson got on the board in the bottom of the fifth, when Rouches doubled in O’Hara, who had also doubled to reach base. But Harvard was unable to further close the gap.Princeton increased its lead to 3-1—the game’s final score—on a lead off home run in the sixth inning. Both Princeton’s David Palms and Harvard’s Brent Suter tossed complete games...
...Third, an overly scientific approach to politics makes even the most colorful characters appear gray. Former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills was an alcoholic who cavorted with an Argentinean stripper—you couldn’t make him boring. Yet, John Manley comes close in his research, outlining the theory behind “Congressional influence” instead of letting Mills illustrate it: “When one thinks about power between A and B there is a tendency to view the relationship as unidirectional,” Manley intones. “With influence...
...challenge for President Obama: find a way to keep the U.S. and its allies on the same page as far as how to handle Pyongyang. Both Seoul and, to a greater degree, Tokyo are furious at the launch, which comes at a point when relations with North Korea are close to rock bottom for both. South Korean President Lee Myung Bak has junked his predecessor's "sunshine" policy, which showered economic benefits on Pyongyang with few strings attached. That has elicited hostile rhetoric from the North, and a few symbolic acts, like cutting off an inter-Korean military hotline that...