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...stepping stone to a position on the Supreme Court—represents a return to power for HLS, whose largely liberal faculty had retreated from government during the Bush administration. One audience member asked Kagan what it was like to battle with Justice Antonin Scalia, referring to a tense moment during an argument before the Court on Wednesday. “Well, uh, he was wrong,” she said in the rather forced tone of a once free-spoken academic. —Staff writer Elias J. Groll can be reached at egroll@fas.harvard.edu...
...would keep Harvard students from taking their failures seriously and learning from them as they should, new Pfoho resident Graham M. Frankel ’12 said that “we go to Harvard, and we end up internalizing failure and work hard regardless, and in the exact moment, it’s nice to laugh...
...Health care is hard," may be the Obama Administration's catchphrase of the moment, but it's a cakewalk compared with the challenge facing Obama on Iran. Under pressure to turn up the heat on the Iranians - from European allies, Israel and bipartisan consensus on Capitol Hill - Obama had demanded that the Islamic Republic respond by September to a Western offer to resume negotiations or else face escalating sanctions...
...method of coping. In Stuhlberg's precise embodiment, Larry accepts all tribulations with a mouth pressed into pruny silence, as if he had bitten into something rancid but doesn't want to be seen spitting it out. Wouldn't matter if he did: no one gives him a moment to articulate the psychic pains he harbors. (Read "Baffled After Seeing...
...would keep Harvard students from taking their failures seriously and learning from them as they should, new Pfoho resident Graham M. Frankel ’12 said that “we go to Harvard, and we end up internalizing failure and work hard regardless, and in the exact moment, it’s nice to laugh...