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...didn’t get much better for the Harvard women’s basketball team after the Crimson got off the bus.Cornell dominated Harvard on the glass and made seven first-half three pointers en route to a 85-61 rout of the visiting Crimson. The 24-point loss was Harvard’s most lopsided (13-9, 5-2 Ivy) Ivy League defeat since a 95-70 loss against Brown in February 2004 and put the Crimson on the outside looking in on the Ivy title race.“I don’t think we would...
...polls show to be Labor's most popular figure, would like to make one last try for the post, but union leaders have judged him too old. Tony Benn, longtime Laborite leftist and prime architect of the party's disastrous manifesto, planned to make a run, but his unexpected loss last week knocked him out of the race. Among the remaining moderates, the leading contenders are Roy Hattersley, Labor's spokesman for domestic affairs, and Peter Shore, shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Hattersley, who helped negotiate Britain's entry into the Common Market, surprised many by not breaking away...
...that it took place with Britain suffering its highest level of unemployment since the Great Depression. During four years of Tory rule, joblessness shot up from 5.4% to 13.3%, leaving 3,049,000 Britons out of work. Yet polls showed that voters generally did not blame Thatcher for the loss of their jobs, but accepted her argument that the world recession was chiefly at fault and that she was more
...Fearing that public trust in the economic system could erode more quickly, some business leaders are beginning to sound the alarm. In an interview in Monday's edition of the tabloid Bild, Josef Ackermann, the CEO of Deutsche Bank, joined the chorus of voices warning against a loss of public faith in the country's economic institutions. "All of us in business must now make a renewed effort to live up to the responsibilities of our leadership roles and win back lost confidence," he was quoted as saying...
Those passages, fortunately, are over quickly and what remains is an honest effort at exploring an issue that will continue to plague the world for years to come. The tragedy of Bhutto's death is not so much in the loss of a great leader for Pakistan - her record in government is hardly to be emulated - but in that she has been silenced. Her messages need to be said over and over again. The tragedy is that the leader unafraid to speak those messages is gone just when she had finally begun to articulate them...