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...Okonjo-Iweala was asked to be the first female finance minister of Nigeria. She strove to reduce corruption and decrease the country??s immense debt, while reordering the nation’s finances despite resistance to her economic reforms...
...tournaments we’ll wrestle in,” Harvard coach Jay Weiss said. “It’s extremely tough to gear up for a tournament [of this caliber].”Some of Harvard’s competitors felt right at home among the country??s best, as No. 4 O’Connor (157 lbs.) and Jantzen (141) earned third and fifth seeds respectively, while Caputo (184) garnered the top spot in his weight class.All three grapplers dazzled high-quality opponents, breezing through to the semifinals, but Jantzen?...
...entered a select group thus distinguished by Harvard University, joining George Washington, Winston Churchill, and Nelson Mandela in the honor. Sen. Kennedy’s rise to his position atop American politics was, of course, a tumultuous one that unfolded across decades. The youngest son in one of this country??s most influential political dynasties, Kennedy decided against a career in professional football to take up what had become the family business. He won his brother John’s vacated Senate seat in 1962—one he has held ever since. Soon thereafter, the freshman senator...
...surrender his “Star Wars” missile defense shield scuttled the agreement. More recently, the Bush administration’s decision to place missile interceptors in Poland led a Russian general to threaten a nuclear strike on that country and the general provocation of that country??s political leadership. These diplomatic losses surely outweigh any potential security advantage afforded by ballistic missile defense...
...since a large consensus of the population believes that immigration must be scaled back. “Even among immigrant communities, there is the view that ‘once I got in, then [we should] close the door’,” Dominguez said. Much of the country??s population is not adversely affected by increased levels of immigration, he said, while still acknowledging that the lowest quintile of the population is hurt by greater inflows of people into the U.S. “In this huge period of immigration, legal and illegal, over the past...