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Langguth details the construction of the country with impeccable detail, but his prose never borders on the tedious. He avoids the run-of-the-mill history lesson by inserting various anecdotes about America’s founding fathers...
Last season, a familiar lesson was rudely reinforced for the Harvard men’s basketball team—attempt to challenge the one immutable law of the Ivy hoops universe and the reality of the league’s unchanging landscape will pound your squad into submission. The 2005-06 campaign was the most highly anticipated in Harvard’s recent history, as the Crimson was expected to challenge Penn and Princeton for its first-ever league title on the strength of a formidable frontcourt. Harvard was picked second in the preseason media poll mainly based...
...defeat. By most accounts, the yanqui politicking - which included a threat to cut off U.S. aid to impoverished Nicaragua if Ortega won - backfired miserably, actually helping boost the Sandinista leader to his first-round victory. That such U.S. pressure tends to work in favor of its opponents is a lesson Washington seems woefully unable to learn in a post-Cold War Latin America whose electorates have unexpectedly turned leftward in recent years...
...working as a foot soldier for the fabled Republican “get out the vote” effort, I have re-learned an important lesson: Local elections are fundamentally local, based on personalities and anxieties...
...takes three periods to win a game. The No. 16 Harvard men’s hockey team learned that lesson too late on Saturday night, falling short in a 5-4 defeat to St. Lawrence (4-3, 2-0). The loss marked the first time that Harvard has lost the first three games of the season since the 1951-52 campaign.“It’s just another learning step for us,” captain Dylan Reese said. “It’s still early in the year, so this adversity that we?...