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Harvard women's soccer team squares-off this afternoon against more of an enigma than a soccer team...
...important unifying force in a society riven by social, ethnic and political divisions. The job demands a felicitous combination of skill and character, and it is difficult to say whether Ramos has it. Though he has spent 46 of his 64 years in the public eye, he remains an enigma to all but a tight circle of relatives and friends, most of them fellow military men. A West Point graduate with a degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois in the U.S., Ramos is more likely to stupefy audiences with statistics than stir them with rhetoric. The most...
...while the Coop may grow friendlier to thecustomer, it will remain an enigma in HarvardSquare and the retail industry.Crimson GraphicJames ChamA Delicate Balance The Coop's sales havefallen into a small decline, while the rebatesthat Coop members receive at year's end show asignificant decrease, exacerbating the tensioninvolved in deciding whether student service orsales should remain a priority...
...nature, the elusive and the earthy. When she died alone at 90 last week in her tiny Paris apartment, the world did not exactly mourn her, most of it being too young to have powerful emotional connections with her. But it did pause to ponder, one last time, the enigma that was Marlene Dietrich...
...Writers such as James Fallows (More Like Us), Clyde Prestowitz (Trading Places) and Karel van Wolferen (The Enigma of Japanese Power) argue that it is because Japan remains fundamentally different from the U.S. in economy and culture and is committed to playing by unfair rules that discriminate against imports. There is truth in that: Japan is a profoundly communal society organized on almost every level to protect the interests of the Japanese -- the welfare of the nation, its business community and its people are one and the same...