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...draw. The team of juniors Ashwin Kumar and Kieran Burke were seeded No. 1 overall and made their way into the finals, but the freshman Michael Hayes and junior Dan Nguyen were just an after thought. And in the end, Hayes and Nguyen surprised not only most of the opposition??they were seeded No. 30 entering the tournament—but also upended their Harvard teammates 8-5 in the final to win the doubles part of the tournament. Kumar did not have as impressive results in the singles’ Flight A despite also being...
Conflict and disagreement are necessary ingredients in our democratic process, since they force politicians to refine and question their ideas and check excess. Regardless of whether Republicans or Democrats dominate the government, when a single party gains disproportionate power, radical and unwise policies are bound to ensue. The nagging opposition??s counterarguments and criticisms can be safely ignored, allowing the majority to adopt imprudent policies without thinking them through. Nowhere else in the nation is the need for balance more urgent than in Massachusetts. If Kerry Healey is not elected as a check against the legislature...
...question should never be what you are against.” But those colonial New England preachers understood a practical fact about communities: though we might wish it otherwise, people find unity and value by focusing together on what they oppose. Hence the jeremiad employs the logic of opposition??and, remarkably, it does so without demonizing other people. Sin is found within the congregation, not elsewhere; any witch-hunt goes on in your own soul. So the question is: What should Harvard oppose in order to know itself better? For me, the beginning of an answer has emerged...
...painful history with Princeton into the minds of the Crimson faithful, burying a last-second baseline jumper to give the Tigers a 60-59 victory. The shot completed a final-minute comeback from a six-point deficit and handed a devastated Harvard team its second straight loss on the opposition??s ultimate possession...
...role of “Judge Bork” in a practice session as then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden, Jr., D-Del., honed his cross-examination tactics, according to a 1987 Washington Post report. And Tribe “served as the keynote speaker for the opposition?? at the Bork hearings, according to a New York Times report that same year...