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...putting its wealth to good civic use: its tidy streets are adorned with banks of flowers and well-manicured trees, and it has racked up model-city awards from Beijing and the United Nations. But these shiny credentials presented a dilemma for local leaders?their political promotion would depend in part on outdoing their predecessors, and Zhongshan didn't leave much room for improvement. So when the Yuezhong shipworks went bankrupt, it wasn't long before plans emerged to remove an eyesore, cut ribbons and make progress...
Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who criticized the Corporation in February for failing to consult more widely with the University community, said on Friday that the effectiveness of the new attempt to reach out would depend on the process by which the committee members are chosen...
...nightcap. “We knew the season, regardless of what we were doing before, started today,” sophomore Steffan Wilson said. “We needed two [wins]. We’d been struggling a little bit down in Florida. You can’t ever depend on two, but that was the goal and it feels great to get it from a team that we split with last year.”HARVARD 8, PRINCETON 2Senior Josh Klimkiewicz and Wilson propelled the Crimson to a harder-than-it-looked 8-2 win to sweep the twinbill...
...there be a third future? That will depend on whether we succeed in holding proliferation at bay. Iran is the test case. It is the most dangerous political entity on the planet, and yet the world response has been catastrophically slow and reluctant. Years of knowingly useless negotiations, followed by hesitant international resolutions, have brought us to only the most tentative of steps--referral to a Security Council that lacks unity and resolve. Iran knows this and therefore defiantly and openly resumes its headlong march to nuclear status. If we fail to prevent an Iranian regime run by apocalyptic fanatics...
...Chaterji says she realized her identity did not depend on taking part in a particular ethnic community, and she chose to break out of her comfort zone...