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...collegiate system of women’s soccer has failed the US National team in other, more transparent ways. For one, players from the youth level all the way up to the college ranks are evaluated on endurance, physical stature, and speed...
...Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Friedman called himself cautiously optimistic about whether China’s growth could continue in the face of threats such as overproduction, dramatic rises in income inequality, and bad lending practices. “If the Chinese are able to sustain the level of growth that they have experienced, [they] will liberalize and democratize, which does not mean that their liberal democracy will look like ours,” he added. The event’s other main speaker, Yasheng Huang, an associate professor of international management at MIT, contrasted developments in the Chinese...
...again proved too much, sweeping the Crimson (5-7, 0-2) for the second time, 3-0 (30-23, 30-21, 30-25). “We came out really fired up,” senior Laura Mahon said. “But Dartmouth has maintained a level of play this year I’ve never seen before. They really had our number.” Despite dropping the match, Harvard spread the ball, with eight players recording at least one kill and nine notching at least one dig. Sophomore libero Katherine Kocurek led the defense with a match...
...lineup—including at least one victory from three freshmen—sent a strong message that the team will be a force in the Ivy League in the spring. But if Harvard is to live up to its lofty hopes, it will have to maintain its highest level of play from the get-go, which it failed to do against Penn State, losing the doubles point in a sweep and leaving its singles players to climb out of a hole. “To a certain extent, we were sleep-walking through some of the matches...
Climate change geeks with a thing for international conferences - like me - were spoilt for choice this past week. You could rub shoulders with national leaders from over 80 countries - or just their junior advisers, depending on the color of your badge - at the United Nations high-level meeting on climate. You could Amtrak down to the White House and hear President George W. Bush tell the world's major economies that this global warming thing might actually be a problem and that we should maybe consider doing something about it eventually. Or you could catch the Clinton Global Initiative...