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...scholars, journalists, businesspeople and even senior officials crossing the Strait in both directions have enabled China to better understand what makes Taiwan tick. Now Beijing's strategy is more nuanced. That's partly tactical: the hard-line approach was driving people to the DPP. But it's also an effort to win Taiwan hearts and minds and to show that China, too, is more complex than a caricature of a totalitarian state...
...beaten the Crimson 5-1 in their last meeting. The 2009 edition of the two teams’ showdown was hardly the offensive battle it was a year ago. With a lone goal propelling Harvard to victory, the match was largely a war of attrition. A strong defensive effort by the Crimson’s back line ultimately gave Harvard the edge. Senior Kwaku Nyamekye, juniors Rob Millock and Jaren LaGreca, and sophomore Baba Omosegbon combined with sophomore goalie Austin Harms to shut down BU and bring home the win for the Crimson. “We were very solid...
...first few weeks of school. “It’s a good first step,” said Ingrid G. Akerlind ’10 of the fair. “It’s definitely more personal than e-recruiting.” The ongoing effort to diversify the fair has been aided in recent years by the absence of major banks like Goldman Sachs, and the now defunct Lehman Brothers. A sea of bodies, clad in dress-for-success garb navigated the five industry “neighborhoods,” including representatives from...
...performances that will take place over the next two months as part of the initiative, which has been designed to provide more opportunities on campus for members of the Harvard community to connect; all members of the Harvard community are invited to sign up for a performance. Leading the effort is University President Drew Faust, who began working with the director of the University’s Planning Office, Tanya Latridis, soon after she became president; another project of Faust’s, the Arts Task Force, is working to integrate the arts more fully into the Harvard community...
...outstanding points of contention between the two countries. It has for the first time officially recognized Lebanese sovereignty, by opening a Syrian embassy in Beirut. (Damascus has traditionally viewed Lebanon as a Syrian province turned into a separate country by European colonial powers.) And it has made some effort to stem the flow of militants across the Syrian border into Iraq. Still, Syria appears wary of giving away too much and is especially wary of U.S. demands that it give up its strategic alliances with Iran, Hizballah and Hamas. Syria's fears that breaking from its allies in search...