Word: exactingly
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...Snyder and Liao each dropped two in the net as well. No. 14 HARTWICK 19, HARVARD 5It wasn’t quite the senior day that Harvard hoped for on Saturday. Hosting only its second home game (and last of the season) at Blodgett Pool, the Crimson failed to exact revenge against the Hawks. “They killed us on transition,” Snyder said. “Only two of their goals came from a set offense. We need to do a much better job guarding against that.”Speed was the decisive factor against...
...country's stature in the global community. "When the rest of the world looks at China, they see this increasingly powerful and confident country," says Wenran Jiang, director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta. "But when the Chinese leadership looks at the country, they see the exact opposite: weaknesses everywhere, rising inflation and civil unrest, environmental disasters and corruption. So the overall mentality of the central authorities is very insecure and nervous." In the case of Tibet, Chinese leaders are now trapped by their own words, which have fueled nationalist sentiments among ordinary Chinese, who believe that...
...China, they see this increasingly powerful and confident country spending more and more on its military, its economy booming, its financial power overseas growing," says Wenran Jiang, director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta. "But when Chinese leadership looks at the country they see the exact opposite: weaknesses everywhere from Tibet to Xinjiang, to rising inflation and civil unrest, environmental disasters and corruption. So the overall mentality of the central authorities is very insecure and nervous." Jiang argues that the only way to move toward a solution in Tibet is to negotiate with the Dalai Lama...
...next morning, the men of Chester French are on at the Yahoo! Music soundstage, where they’re taping an acoustic set. Wallach sports a self-consciously edgy pair of red Levi’s, and when Drummey appears in the exact same pair of jeans, I take it as an attempt at color coordination a la The Hives. Then I recognize the pants from the swag booth of the previous night’s Levi’s–sponsored performance. In truth, the jeans aren’t a fashion statement; they?...
...told what the funding is and how they can get fellowships and it has a big effect.” Additionally, Skocpol said that Harvard’s Ph.D. completion rate is “way above” the national average, though she could not provide the exact percentage. According to Kyle M. Brown, president of the Graduate Student Council, the obligations of academics, the difficulties of finding money for tuition and research, and increasing personal obligations make life hard for graduate school students. “As graduate students are older, they often have families or spouses...