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...hounded the discipline in recent years - its tendency toward clubby academic isolation. A fine antidote to this trend is John Burrow's A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century, an ambitious and accessible account of the historian's craft over the last 2,500 years. In the tradition of Ford Madox Ford's The March of Literature and Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy, Burrow's book is at once idiosyncratic and encyclopedic. A former professor of European thought at Oxford University, Burrow marshals a lifetime of knowledge...
...flawed education system are challenges faced by governments at all levels, and Rudy has time and again proven he can tackle these sorts of problems. And, in addressing problems he wasn’t exposed to as mayor, Rudy would apply his model of persistence and innovation to craft the right solutions...
...dismal first 20 minutes, Harvard (7-8, 0-1 Ivy) rallied and briefly took the lead—its first since 2-0—with just over six minutes to go before falling behind again, 47-43, after a huge three-pointer from Big Green senior Kristen Craft. But the Crimson answered back with two straight baskets from Rollins to tie the score at 47 with 1:29 remaining. On its next possession, Dartmouth (3-9, 1-0 Ivy) got the ball to the hot-shooting Craft. She missed her jumper, but senior forward Sydney Scott grabbed...
...Harvard underestimates Dartmouth’s sharpshooters, it could be in for a long night. Junior Koren Schram recorded eight three-pointers in two games last weekend, and made five in a loss at Denver last month. Senior Kristen Craft is the high-scorer and assists leader for the Big Green, and either Craft or Schram has led Dartmouth in points in all but ones of its games this season. If it hopes to earn the victory it has won on paper, the Crimson will have to have a hand in the face of the Big Green shooters and rebound...
...week-long negotiations, meant to craft the beginnings of a new global effort on climate change, had already gone into overtime when diplomats emerged from behind closed doors at 2 AM Saturday morning, claiming that a compromise deal between the EU, the U.S. and the major developing nations had been reached. Delegates from some 190 nations reconvened several hours later for what should have been a final approval session...