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Once again, Harvard was led by its freshman class, which has transitioned smoothly to the collegiate level, accounting for 64 percent of the team’s scoring this season. The rookies will have to play an even larger role on offense given the injury sustained by last season’s Ivy League leader in goals per game, Jess Halpern, who went down with a knee injury in the Crimson’s second contest of the season against Johns Hopkins...
...White House aides, who are critical of the Supreme Court decision, say they worry that the recent change to election law could lead to whole new level of campaign-finance pressure. "The most alarming part of Citizens United is that theoretically insurance companies could go to members and say, 'Oppose health reform, or I am going to run a million-dollar ad campaign in your district,' " says Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director. "That's the nightmare scenario...
...national focus on energy conservation that will generate "thousands" of jobs at the same time, say White House aides. "Never before has anybody pulled together a coalition and said we can take this practice - 100,000 or 200,000 science-based home retrofits - to a whole new level," Doerr told TIME. (See the top 10 news stories...
...Obama delayed final approval of the arms sale, which was initially greenlighted by his predecessor, George W. Bush, and postponed the Dalai Lama meeting to avoid offending Beijing ahead of his first state visit to China. Following this year's arms-sale announcement, however, China cut off high-level military exchanges with the U.S., which had been recently restored following China's protest over a previous weapons package that was approved by Bush...
...speech on Sunday, Wen shot down expectations that China would allow the value of the renminbi to appreciate significantly, saying it was correctly valued and would remain "basically stable at a reasonable level" this year. "We oppose nations finger-pointing or even using forceful methods to compel a country to raise the value of its currency," he said. He also worried openly about the value of China's dollar-denominated assets, including $895 billion in U.S. Treasury debt. He warned the U.S. not to depreciate its currency to boost trade, as it would hurt the value of Chinese-held assets...