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...They can’t score if they don’t have the ball, so can we limit the touches of their better players on the perimeter? So we’re going to have our hands full, being on the road, which was certainly not a positive moment for our team a year ago.”Harvard lost all of its road games last year, but the Crimson beat UNH 72-67 at home last November and won a thriller two years ago against the Wildcats on the road in overtime. To keep up the streak, Harvard...
...good enough to publish.” I would have been disappointed but I would not have killed myself.FM: What role should the African author play in the political sphere?Achebe: Well, I think the role is determined by the life that is going on around us at any moment. And the way one writer responds to this is always different from the way another writer responds. So it’s rather risky to lay down the law for writers in general. I wouldn’t dream of doing that because it is arrogant, to begin with...
...said Leach, explaining in an e-mailed statement why Obama picked him and Albright to go on his behalf. “The Senator concluded that elections are the appropriate place to compete and transitions are for preparing for the future rather than preempting authority at the moment.” Leach spent 30 years as a U.S. representative from Iowa before serving as the IOP’s interim director last year. He is currently a visiting professor at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Despite coming from the other side...
...Stephen Hess. While Roosevelt could have done more to step in, he chose to wait to take office and exercise his full power - making a clean break and effectively laying all the blame on the previous Administration of Herbert Hoover. As Jonathan Alter writes in his book The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, "Roosevelt wanted to make sure that the people remembered that it was Republicans who had forgotten their interests. If this meant sitting by idly while the economy sunk lower, FDR could live with that...
...pride and take a step forward. I hope they're inspired by it." In a museum, Hirano says, the mural would have a limited audience. But in the station, the work can speak to anyone. That is, anyone willing to step out of the rush and take a moment to look at a new work of art, 40 years in the making...