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...good position to sweep its final contests of the season at Yale and Brown, which would allow it to leapfrog Harvard and Cornell should either team fail to match that pace. And with Cornell (vs. Dartmouth) at Harvard (at Colgate) both favorites to win on Friday, it could mean that the final first-round bye will go to whoever comes away with two points when the two teams meet on Saturday night. After a turbulent and unpredictable season for the Crimson, it could very realistically all come down to this: another showdown in Ithaca, with crucial playoff positioning...
...This doesn’t mean that the possibility of harm should be a deterrent from doing any kind of service at all. The solution, Winship believes, is to thoughtfully question the program itself and one’s own motives...
...many Harvard students, community service is measured not by fancy data and educational metrics, but by time, energy, and sometimes even emotional turmoil. While this often leaves students feeling defeated or futile, PBHA leaders say, that doesn’t mean that volunteers don’t accomplish something positive...
...Though Obama may now be leading slightly in the delegate count, it is by no means certain that he will take the party’s nomination. If Hillary Clinton were to win, the Democratic Party would be faced with a large number of obsessive Obama supporters not at all interested in supporting the woman who shot down their beloved champion. This scenario would surely mean victory for John McCain...
...Just because the candidates haven't been debating a larger strategy for handling weak states doesn't mean they're not thinking about it. Clinton has several experts on failed states advising her, including Richard Holbrooke, who negotiated the end of the Balkan wars, and Madeleine Albright, who made expanding democracy the theoretical aim of her tenure as Bill Clinton's Secretary of State. McCain's director of foreign and national security policy is Randy Scheunemann, from the conservative Project for a New American Century, who as a Senate adviser handled issues of military intervention in the Balkans and Somalia...