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Tonight's game marks the 156th meeting against the good ol' Elis (11-13, 6-6 Ivies). They defeated the Crimson 72-66 several weeks ago in New Haven. After jumping out to a huge lead in the first half, the Bull-dogs were able hold on despite a second half Crimson comeback which brought the game to overtime. This time, Harvard plans for things to go differently...
Harvard dukes it out on its home court again tomorrow night against Brown (6-18, 3-9 Ivy). Harvard lost to the Bears earlier this season, 71-60. Much like the bout with the Elis, Harvard faced a huge deficit early and summoned a strong yet unsuccessful run late in the game. This final game of the season also is the farewell game for Mike Scott, the team captain and only senior...
...really neat to see huge solar system bodies crossing each other," said Benjamin D. Oppenheimer '99, an astronomy enthusiast at the viewing...
Nonetheless, in the Clinton years, both the major political and policy legacies of Reagan have been discredited. "Reaganomics," as his economic policy came to be called, of lower taxes, higher defense spending and a devil-may-care attitude toward the bottom line, has been blamed for the huge deficits of the '80s while Clinton's "anti-Reaganomics" has actually worked. It has contributed to both a growing economy and the elimination of the deficit...
Partly, it's Clinton's fault. With the elimination of the deficit (although not the huge debt), it seems pointless to continue to whine about Reagan's irresponsibility. In fact, as Jonathan Chait points out in the New Republic (Feb. 2), many conservative revisionists are now so emboldened by this fortuitous occurrence that they've taken to arguing the absurd. Ignoring the immediate, post-Reagan recession in the early '90s and the effectiveness of Clinton's policies since then, they claim that it is the healthy economy borne by Reagan that has restored our fiscal health and allowed the budget...