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...finished at 3-13-1 and 2-5-0 in Ivy League play, but this record does not tell the year’s whole story. The team notched key Ivy wins over rivals Cornell and Penn en route to a respectable league finish. In the latter match, the consensus high point of the season, Harvard took it to the Quakers in rainy Philadelphia, riding huge saves from Ivy League Rookie of the Year Lauren Mann to notch the victory. Although the rest of the season did not turn out as well, epitomized by a 5-0 defeat against Princeton...
...belief in free trade may limit his ability to aid developing nations. “[Zoellick’s] take on the reforms needed by developing countries remains, as far as I can tell, quite conventional, circa 1980, with a splash of ‘augmented’ Washington Consensus thinking added in,” he wrote. “One needs to go beyond these old-fashioned ideas that pit states against markets if one wants to make progress against global poverty.” Rodrik did not respond to phone and e-mail requests for comment yesterday...
There are internal disagreements over policy issues and the exact direction of the country, but it seems there is a general consensus on campus today for only one Republican club, Kwong added...
...every century there are certain buildings that are conceived and executed purposely to change the course of architectural history. This is what Horace Walpole had in mind with Strawberry Hill, his 18th century faux-medieval villa on the outskirts of London that defied the Neoclassical consensus of his time and triggered the Gothic Revival. It was what Le Corbusier set out to do with the Villa Savoie, the landmark Modernist house. Libeskind, 61, who spent much of his early career as an architectural theoretician and teacher, routinely operates at the same level of ambition. With his most important projects...
Given the opposition of domestic groups like Hizballah, are you strong enough to move ahead without a solid national consensus? I know that there are risks involved. But what are we expected to do? To respond and comply with the pressure and to accept that impunity will prevail and the state will disintegrate? Is this a democracy? If it is a democracy, I have a majority in the parliament. They know as well, very well, that the majority of the population is supporting...