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BOSTON—If only. Although the Harvard men’s hockey team ultimately fell to No. 1 Boston University 4-3, the Crimson held its own against the top-ranked team in the nation and nearly secured a victory, as junior Alex Biega slammed in what would have been the tying goal just milliseconds after time ran out on the first round of the Beanpot tournament last night. “The game was pretty even throughout,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91. “But we put them...
...Round The World. Today, President Barack Obama’s forgettable and fumbled exchange with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 has been relegated to a historical footnote and their subsequent reenactment assigned to the annals of White House lore. As a nation, we seem ready to both trivially group Barack Obama with Chester Arthur and Calvin Coolidge—predecessors who gave the oath another go—and direct future visitors to the White House Map Room to admire the fireplace before which history was made. This is political travesty of the first order...
...important as it is to have bright minds at Harvard, it is equally important for such intelligence to steer our country in a desirable direction. Both Harvard and the nation as a whole should be excited about Harvard professors leaving Cambridge for Washington...
Britain may have lost some of its olde-worlde charms to the dual forces of modernizing government and globalization, but there's one corner of the nation left largely untouched by progress. Parliament's Upper Chamber, the House of Lords, with its 743 members, including 92 who are there only by dint of their aristocratic lineage, remains a byword for tradition and gentility. Those qualities were at least partially reflected in a recent headline from The Sunday Times: "Whispered over tea and cake: price for a peer to fix the law." According to the article, the polite rituals of afternoon...
...with payment for their value. James Goold, the attorney representing the Spanish government, finds the change interesting. "From my point of view, Odyssey is admitting what it knew all along but ignored in the case of Spain, which is that it can't claim sovereignty over a sovereign nation's possessions. Maybe they've learned a lesson...