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...think it’ll help the Classics department grab more new students since the generals tend to scare freshmen away when they hear about them,” said Andrew T. Rist ’09, who was president of the Classical Club last year...
...Japan is benefiting because of what it isn't. The world's renewed love affair with the nation has blossomed just as many nations are growing wary of the rising influence of Asia's other superpower: China. Unlike Japan, China has done little to mask its global natural-resources grab. As a result, Japan outranked China in a June survey of soft-power effectiveness in six countries by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Far from China eclipsing Japan, as many once thought, the Middle Kingdom's emergence has actually reawakened international admiration of its neighbor. "There's a strong...
...going into Quincy House to grab a quick lunch when a couple with a sandwich board stopped me at the front gate. “Are you going in to vote?” the woman asked me. I told her I wasn’t American as I rushed past. “What did he say?” her partner asked her. “He doesn’t want to vote,” the woman responded dismissively...
Trying to stop amid the stream of commuters at Tokyo's Shibuya station - through which 2.3 million people pass every day - can be a risk. Even stepping out of the flow to grab a paper at one of the station's many convenience stores can be a struggle. But as of Monday, there's a new reason for Tokyoites to take a detour from their well-worn paths: revered Japanese artist Taro Okamoto's Asu no Shinwa ("Myth of Tomorrow") now has a permanent home near the Keio Inokashira line in the Shibuya station...
...they won it.”Then came the controversy. After Mann made a diving stop, and freshman Patricia Yau and junior Lizzy Nichols converted for the Crimson, the score was knotted at 2-2. Northeastern stepped up for its third attempt, and with that attempt, Mann appeared to grab the momentum for the Crimson with another great stop.But the save was reversed, as the head referee called Mann for stepping off her line too early.This is a dubious call, and it was all the more ironic that the referee chose to call it, not on the first...