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...sharing her favorite sport with those closest to her. After spending her first 18 years surrounded by a field hockey-focused family, Keating has transitioned easily into the family of Crimson field hockey.“It’s nice to kind of have a core group of people that you’re always involved with,” Keating says. “I’ve really enjoyed every aspect of the program from the beginning. My teammates are my best friends here so it’s been a really great experience overall...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Junior Forward Sparks Offense in New Role | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...Taliban is not monolithic. It is composed of several layers: a hard-core group of former Taliban commanders (including Mullah Omar) who operate out of sanctuaries across the border in Pakistan and who maintain ties with Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency (though Islamabad vehemently denies this); bands linked to al-Qaeda whose ranks have recently swelled with Arab, Chechen and Uzbek fighters operating in the craggy, northeastern ranges of Afghanistan; and, a last group, probably the largest, made up of local tribesmen who have allied themselves loosely with the Taliban as a result of President Hamid Karzai's often corrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Taliban's Resurgence in Afghanistan | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...proud about the way the FAS community came together these past six months and thought carefully about the difficult balance that needed to be struck between continued spending to support our core mission today and thoughtful budget cuts to ensure that Harvard remained Harvard in the future. By having made difficult choices and by husbanding our financial resources early, we acknowledged the needs of both our current students and the future generations of students yet to matriculate. The process has also produced ideas that will make Harvard stronger and better prepared to tackle the challenges and embrace opportunities...

Author: By Michael D. Smith | Title: Husbanding Harvard’s Resources | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

...stood beside President Barack Obama and announced the guidelines for states to compete for most of that cash. The $4.35 billion Race to the Top (RTT) fund lets states apply for grants that focus on a short list of reforms guaranteed to anger one of the Democratic Party's core constituencies, the teachers' unions. (The remaining $650 million will go to innovative local school districts and nonprofits.) With Duncan handling the ball, the Obama Administration is about to square off with the unions over perhaps the most controversial classroom issue of all: the idea that teachers should be held accountable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Arne Duncan (And $5 Billion) Fix America's Schools? | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...aftermath of the assassination of Robert Kennedy: "Life, and politics, went on. But not in the same way. Not for me. I was shaken to my core. I was implored to rejoin the political whirlwind less than an hour after Bobby expired. The activist Allerd Lowenstein found me on an elevator at the hospital and blurted that I was all the party had left. In subsequent days and weeks, Mayor Daley of Chicago led the voices of those who sought to enlist me as a standard-bearer against Richard Nixon. I told them all no. I understood very well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True Compass: A First Look at Ted Kennedy's Memoir | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

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