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...turmoil in financial markets has become a critical issue for both presidential candidates, and Harvard students’ concerns kept with national trends. Respondents gave the crisis 4.4 of 5 on a scale of importance (with 5 being “very important”), the highest rating among 10 commonly-discussed issues...
...start the second frame, which was marked by 15 ties and two lead changes. With Harvard leading, junior Chelsea Ono Horn maintained the Crimson’s service game, sending out two straight aces to start a 6-0 rally that gave Harvard the 25-18 win. The Crimson kept the momentum going in the third, quickly pulling ahead 12-4 and forcing Brown to use a timeout. The timeout gave new life to the Bears, allowing them to even the score at 16-16. Harvard boosted its offensive efforts in the final nine points to hold onto the shutout...
...attention that swelling voter rolls have attracted, a disturbing trend in the opposite direction has emerged. Thousands of names across the country have been stricken from voter registration records in a number of locales, some in key swing states. While voter registration rolls must be kept up-to-date and accurate, consistent standards among states and transparency of the “voter purging” process will ensure freer and fairer elections in the future...
...enduring several minutes of screaming from a protester admitted into the media stand. Still, U.S. officials say he and President George W. Bush developed a genuine personal rapport. At one point, Bush asked his counterpart which of the numerous challenges China faced was the most serious - which one kept Hu awake at night worrying. "Unemployment," Hu reportedly answered without hesitating...
...about Mexico's future following the reform. Political analyst Federico Estevez said that it could be too little, too late and lead to major losses in oil revenue before more radical legislation is implemented. Furthermore, he said that far from becoming isolated, Lopez Obrador and the hard left have kept themselves in a powerful strategic position if the global economic woes hit Mexico hard. "Lopez Obrador is sitting pretty for when things go bad for the economy here - and they will go bad," Estevez said. "If people lose their jobs, they are not going to care that Calderon has managed...