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...quickly a hockey game can change from a back-and-forth battle to a blowout.With the team having already rallied twice to get within one goal of the Lakers, Simon Gysbers and Fred Cassiani beat freshman goalie Matt Hoyle in a 91-second span.“In general, our offense starts from our zone, and if we can establish a defense mindset, the offense will come,” Biega said. “Because we’re lacking on defense, we didn’t execute the simple passes in our own zone...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Early Momentum Doesn’t Carry Through | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, who is rumored to be president-elect Barack Obama’s choice for solicitor general, won praise over the weekend from one of Ronald Reagan’s solicitors general, who said in an interview that she is a “fresh face” that “some of the justices might appreciate...

Author: By Elias J. Groll | Title: Harvard Law School Dean Kagan Wins Praise as Potential Solicitor General | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

...endorsement came from professor Charles Fried, the Law School’s best known conservative and an academic who served as solicitor general from 1985 to 1989 and as a judge from...

Author: By Elias J. Groll | Title: Harvard Law School Dean Kagan Wins Praise as Potential Solicitor General | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

...solicitor general, the United States’ chief legal advocate, Kagan would represent the U.S. government before the Supreme Court and other federal courts. The United States is party to about two-thirds of cases brought before the high court...

Author: By Elias J. Groll | Title: Harvard Law School Dean Kagan Wins Praise as Potential Solicitor General | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

...months after we spoke, Mbeki was fired by the A.N.C. and the party split in two. In a general election due in a few months, the A.N.C. will face its most formidable array of opposition parties to date. It is a development that would undoubtedly please Suzman. Even so, her passing - and the memory of her lifelong struggle as peaceful objector - casts all of today's South African politicians in a less than flattering light. Even faced with a stronger opposition, few doubt that the next South African president will be Jacob Zuma, the A.N.C. president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: Anti-Apartheid Icon Helen Suzman | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

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