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...Whether one believes those setbacks to the pro-trade agenda were good things is irrelevant. What’s important is that they were effective in seizing the attention of politicians who faced electoral defeat, and business owners who faced boycotts of their products. And what made the campaign effective was that it got people talking and made them think about the kind of world they wanted...
...happier note, the Red Sox were on their way to winning the American League pennant. I skipped classes to attend a World Series game against the Cincinnati Reds. As was their wont in those days, the Sox came agonizingly close to a championship but ended up snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. On that score, as on others--disco music and Pet Rocks come to mind--many things are better today than they were then. In fact, that will be a theme of my remarks today...
...More strikingly, Hillary Clinton’s comeback candidacy—from an Iowa defeat to a New Hampshire triumph—has deterred a dangerous trend in media reporting, in which commentators frequently injected prognostications into coverage. After Iowa, the media cognoscenti began writing obituaries for her candidacy. Colorful commentators such as Chris Matthews effectively anointed Senator Obama the nominee, prompting his NBC colleague Tom Brokaw to accuse the media of “stampeding” the electoral process. Yet Senator Clinton’s perseverance turned such commentary on its head, prompting many reporters to deemphasize polling...
...After the squad’s undefeated streak in its Ivy matchups, the Crimson hoped to be in contention to win the league title. But Harvard failed to maintain its momentum and fell in its last two league games. Princeton gave the Crimson its first conference defeat, sweeping the squad, 9-0, and knocking Harvard out of the running for the title. The Crimson met Yale three days later to battle it out for the second-place spot in the Ancient Eight and the third seed in the CSA National Team Championships. But Harvard couldn’t handle...
...Trinity, dropping all four contests. Against Penn, Harvard played a stellar match—the score was notted at three apiece heading into the final three matches. But the Crimson dropped two of three, managing only a Balsekar victory at No. 7 to fall, 5-4. Despite the defeat, players identified the match as their best of the season, considering the team had lost 9-0 to the Quakers in a preseason scrimmage. “It was close and could have gone either way,” Tiong said. “That was a testament to the hard...