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...many people learn to claw their way to too few spots: fellowships, jobs or admissions to graduate schools far and wide. Meanwhile, hopelessness at Harvard is diffuse, displaced but ever-present; the drive that superficially characterizes our student body seems only to be encouraged by subterranean seams of doubt and fear...
...Butt will exercise once more this weekend, as his lightweights start a new year of competition, and Guerette races with Davies in the championship women’s doubles. Whatever the outcome of this regatta, however, there can be no doubt that, for the time being Harvard is on top of the rowing world.—Staff writer Alexandra C. Bell can be reached at acbell@fas.harvard.edu...
...Other recent studies have added further doubt. Marshalling data from the 31 states with significant pre-primary polling this year, Nate Silver of the political website fivethirtyeight.com, argues it was Obama, not Clinton, who actually outperformed expectations in this year's primaries, by an average...
...Without a doubt the two main factors are the financial crisis and the presidential debates. When Lehman Brothers collapsed on Sept. 14, McCain still led the national polls by about two points. For McCain, the subsequent fallout proved to be a triple whammy, reminding voters about the benefits of government regulation (a traditionally Democratic argument), highlighting the failure of leadership of the current White House and accelerating the nation's collective sense that it has been heading in the wrong direction...
...Still, the deal leaves little doubt that the Iraq war is being drawn to a close -and not necessarily because the U.S. has achieved its benchmarks on the ground. A new U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, intended to guide the next U.S. president on the situation there, is reportedly near completion. Reflecting the consensus among the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, the new NIE will reportedly warn that, contrary to the rosy picture of progress stressed by McCain on the campaign trail, the situation in Iraq remains precarious. Although violence has been reduced to its lowest levels since early...