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...considering its track record and personnel. The desire to win ought to be there. Coming within two successful penalty kicks of advancing to the second round of college soccer’s biggest stage is healthy motivation, to say the least. The players are there too. Yes, Harvard lost key graduating seniors in the midfield and on the backline, but a debilitating loss it was not. As the class of 2009 exited the stage, the situation appeared to be more of an opportunity than a crisis. Last year’s group of juniors took on an increasingly larger role...
...front of the home crowd, start off divisional play 1-0,” said co-captain Egen Atkinson, citing team defense and a “stellar” performance by senior goalie Nikhil Balaraman as crucial to the win. A successful transition game was another key aspect of Harvard’s victory. Tallying four goals off of breakaways or odd-man rushes, the team capitalized on several easy scoring opportunities. Atkinson was responsible for two of these, scoring twice in the first two minutes of the second quarter. 30 seconds into the period, the captain harnessed...
...channel last year, Beck has lit up the 5 p.m. slot in a way never thought possible by industry watchers, drawing upwards of 3 million viewers on some recent days. Indeed, despite his late-afternoon start, he sometimes beats even Bill O'Reilly, Fox's prime-time behemoth, in key ratings demographics. The value of his Fox contract is reliably said to be about $2 million per year. (See a Q&A with Glenn Beck...
...past administrations. "[The new Cabinet] is not simply a change of characters in a game that continues to be played in the same way as before. They're serious about changing the way that government works - and that's reflected in this Cabinet." Hatoyama has surrounded himself with key DPJ executives in what Okumura says could be the "strongest across the board" Cabinet ever. Key members are Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii and Health Minister Akira Nagatsuma, who will have to deal with tough issues that the Japanese public - aging and anxious about the future - want tackled quickly: the anemic economy...
...sticking the knife into the LDP heart without the distasteful job of being accountable to the media." Gerald Curtis, a Japanese-politics expert and professor at Columbia University, says the Hatoyama Administration is a game changer in Japanese politics - and that Ozawa's objective has changed as well. The key question, he says: "Does Hatoyama as Prime Minister have the leadership ability to say, 'This is what needs to be done,' and insist it get done? At this point you don't want to underestimate Hatoyama's determination to make the most of the position...