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...guys—they played really well and fought hard. The only thing that really didn’t go our way was the outcome.”Harvard’s starting defense on Saturday was entirely composed of freshmen and sophomores, which may help to explain some of the miscommunication and minor positioning errors the squad experienced. “They’re a really good group athletically, but they’re struggling with lack of leadership,” Anderson said.Stenmark and Duboe added two goals each to go along with Mahler?...
...people from East Timor explain their country thusly: "Umm, it used to be part of Indonesia, but it became independent in 2002." If that doesn't work, they try: "It used to be a Portuguese colony, but it's now independent." Or, "It's half of an island between Indonesia and Australia, and now it's an independent nation." The punch line is always the same: Independence! In 2002! The first country to gain its freedom in the new millennium! Nevertheless, many East Timorese are resigned to the fact that most everyone else has no idea who they...
...income-distribution shift doesn't explain all the improvement in the government's financial situation: corporate tax receipts have risen a lot since 2003 as well. That gain is the result of a postrecession recovery in corporate profits, plus the expiration of some Bush tax breaks--plus, speculates University of Michigan economist Joel Slemrod, a decrease in corporate tax avoidance in the wake of the scandals of 2002. It's widely assumed that this corporate tax boom will soon tail...
Coordinator of Transfer Admissions Sage M. Suorsa suggests that variety of course selection and particular departmental strengths are often cited as reasons for transferring. Transfer applications reinforce this, since they require a student to explain why their current school is a poor academic...
Awkward as it may be for an outsider to intrude in the doings of a country or a church that is not his own, I nonetheless believe that the Most Rev. Archbishop Peter Akinola has some explaining to do. The Anglican Primate of Nigeria, one of the most powerful churchmen in Africa, needs to clarify his stance on a Nigerian anti-homosexuality bill he initially supported, which assigns a five-year prison term not only for practicing gays, but also for those who support them. Akinola either needs to publicly renounce, in strong terms, his early support of the bill...