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...must find consensus on ways to revitalize the economy, repair the health system and boost employment. Victories in three state elections on March 26 gave her coalition a lift, but now, for the first time since it won power four months ago, the German government is set to grasp the nettle of domestic policy. Reforms to reduce joblessness and find new money for health care are due as early as June. As her supporters celebrated their election gains, Merkel cautioned that "tough working weeks lie ahead of us." It will take more than such warnings, though, to puncture the bubble...
...Princeton and Cornell, though, Harvard encounters perhaps the two most dangerous challengers to unseat it as Ivy League champion. The Big Red captured the Gehrig Division crown a year ago, wresting it from the habitual grasp of the Tigers...
...first period.After a hooking penalty on Watters at 10:50 left Harvard shorthanded, junior Steve Mandes created a breakaway and rifled a shot at Saints goalie Justin Pesony. Pesony managed to stop the initial shot but did not retain possession of the rebound, which slipped out of his grasp and onto the waiting stick of sophomore Tyler Magura, who slid the puck into the back of the net.The goal was Harvard’s first shorthanded goal of the season and Magura’s first of his career. It could not have come at a better time?...
...hole after an MIT ace, but managed to stay close on two timely kills from co-captain Seamus McKiernan. By the time the Crimson took a 24-23 lead—its first of the game—on a McKiernan kill, the opening frame seemed firmly in its grasp. Harvard’s energy certainly helped, but so did a substantial size advantage. In particular, the 6’9 Weissbourd and 6’7 Andy Nelson had a lot of success for the Crimson. It seemed as if whenever the Engineers (17-8) and their crowd gained...
...warns that “reviews of undergraduate education frequently proceed in a haze of unwarranted optimism without a thorough discussion of ends and means.” Only when colleges have a firm grasp of their own functioning and abilities will curricular reviews actually bring the recommended changes to fruition...