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Twenty-four juniors have been elected to Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, Harvard’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The undergraduate honor society, whose stated goal is to encourage “scholarship, friendship, and cultural interests,” admits students based on factors such as the variety of their course loads and the depth of their intellectual endeavors. The application process includes submitting two letters of recommendation, which the society recommends be written by faculty members at the University. The inducted students said that they were very pleased with their prestigious achievement...
...From week to week the goal is just to…use practice to race better the following week,” Schreck said. “We’ve put in quite a bit of work, and [the upcoming race] will give us an opportunity to assert ourselves and show some speed...
...Another simple violation is called against UConn, but growing discontent stirs within the Harvard team: a harsher penalty should probably have been called, one where Harvard could have received an automatic free goal. In the end, UConn wins, 20 to 15. Harvard will not be going to Nationals...
...even as Washington's ability to project naval power recedes. There are enough interlocking economic interests, he says, to keep tempers and national interests from roiling the waters. America, Kaplan concludes, "will serve as a stabilizing power in this newly complex area. Indispensability, rather than dominance, must be its goal." (Read about a remote U.S. base in the Indian Ocean...
...Afghanistan; when they all arrive, there will be about 55,000 troops there from the U.S., plus 37,000 from its allies. The latest Afghan war is now Obama's war. The Administration has signaled that it is downsizing expectations about what can still be achieved: the principal goal now is to counter terrorism and bring a degree of stability to Afghanistan - not to turn a poor and fractious nation into a flourishing democratic state. When Obama laid out his new strategy last month, he made it clear that the mark of success would be the ability "to disrupt, dismantle...