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...says he sees some students going through a kind of grief cycle, first coping with shock, then denial and disappointment. Many current MBA students graduated from college as the tech bubble was bursting, Chan points out, so they're frustrated at the prospect of once again graduating into a cold job market...
...grander scale, can bowstring diplomacy achieve anything? American orchestras have been musical ambassadors before. The Boston Symphony Orchestra played the Soviet Union in 1956, but the Cold War dragged on for decades. The Philadelphia Orchestra played Beijing in 1973, yet formal relations between the two nations weren't established until 1979. Even if you watch the NYP's Pyongyang adventure in slo-mo, you won't spot Kim Jong Il making nuclear concessions in a balcony suite while seduced by the universal language of music (he didn't attend). But at least you will see, at the concert's close...
...single word, and a shared analysis. The word is "leadership," and the analysis is this. After World War II, the U.S. built an international system that protected those who signed up to its values, and that provided the means for contesting Soviet communism. Now, with the end of the Cold War, and in the messy world that has taken shape in its aftermath, it is time for America to show leadership again. In his set-piece speech on foreign policy in Chicago in April 2007, for example, Barack Obama identified no less than five ways in which the U.S. should...
...Truman once said of America, 'God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.' In his time, that purpose was to contain communism and build the structures of peace and prosperity that could provide a safe passage through the Cold War. Now it is our turn. We face a new set of opportunities and also new dangers ... The United States must lead in the 21st century, just as it did in Truman...
...Harvard field hockey team finished off a four game home stand last night with a match against No. 14 Boston College. On a cold and wet evening at Jordan Field, the Eagles offense proved too formidable for the Crimson (6-7, 2-2 Ivy) as BC (12-4, 1-3 ACC) scored three unanswered goals en route to a victory...