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Evelyn D. Chow ’12 agrees with Antunes that the cult surrounding Ferguson is based more on admiration and less on fanaticism. “I don’t think people worship the ground he walks on,” she says. “If I were to make a comparison, with the way people kind of idolize Greg Mankiw, i’m not sure if you’d find that same level of idolatry [with Ferguson...
...difficult task of finding a middle ground between two extremes, according to Tad J. Oelstrom, an Adjunct Lecturer and expert on the Middle East at the Harvard Kennedy School...
...could Quidditch be what Harvard-Yale is to the Ivy League Muggles? Doubtful. Before you Rush off with your butterbeer helmet and Gryffindor body paint, keep in mind that it is going to take a lot more than Felix Felicis to get this team off the ground. Still interested in joining? Well, at the very least, come Halloween time, you'll have a cool costume...errr, well at least you'll have a costume...
...several months, Capitol Hill has been ground zero for the battle over President Obama's ambitious effort to reform the health-care system. But there are growing indications that if and when Congress actually manages to pass a bill, the real action may well be in the states, which could have a surprising degree of autonomy in determining how they implement the federal legislation, and whether it delivers on the promise of curbing soaring costs and providing coverage for the nearly 50 million uninsured. Though most everyone recognizes that the Federal Government can't impose a rigid approach, some critics...
It’s been almost a year since that historic election, and our hope has lost some of its audacity. With troops still on the ground and uncertainty still in the air, war in Iraq presses on with no end in sight and a daily price tag well into the millions. And now, President Obama is preparing to ramp up the “good war” in Afghanistan. The United States hasn’t won a ground war in over half a century, and now one of the smartest presidents in modern American history thinks...