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...wrote. Richardson said she remembers voicing doubt about how easy it would be to defeat Saddam—not a particularly prescient comment, it turned out—but also about how easy it would be to win the peace. “I certainly felt I was the lone wolf,” she said. “Nobody likes to be seen as soft on terrorism, soft on the bad guys.” For the Harvard academics who predicted the current turmoil in Iraq, the lack of accountability for the war’s intellectual supporters...
...Crimson, the preseason pick to repeat as Ivy champions, fell 68-62 to Dartmouth in Friday’s league playoff game in New York City. Harvard will share the league crown with Cornell and the Big Green, and the Big Red earned the league’s lone NCAA bid in a 64-47 win over Dartmouth yesterday. For Harvard, it was the decisive, crushing blow in a season of incredible expectations in which the Crimson was the odds-on favorite to win the Ivy Championship. Harvard entered the final week of the conference schedule in sole possession...
...hard,” MacLaughlin said. “They were able to pick off some of our passes. They were a lot more motion oriented than we were. They had a lot more kick outs, and they had a lot more power play opportunities.” The lone score of the second half for the Crimson came from Liao on a long distance laser in front of the net. She anchored the Harvard offense for the evening with two scores. “I’m extremely disappointed in our performance,” Farrar said...
Just past Dawes Island, at the entrance to Cambridge Common, is a marble gateway topped with an ironwork trellis. At the center of the trellis, a lone Native American stares out enigmatically from a shield, a star over his right shoulder. Above his head a disembodied hand clutches a sword. Below, engraved on a banner, is the inscription, “ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem,” a Latin phrase meaning, “by the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty...
...Madame Chairwoman - The Lone Star State of Texas, home of the Longhorns and the Aggies, birthplace of Buddy Holly and the Dixie Chicks, where the Brazos River rises and then touches the sea...proudly casts its 228 votes for...um, hang on, a minute, Madame Chairwoman, we're still counting...