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With over a month until Harvard faces powerhouse Rochester, the Crimson will attempt to continue its momentum and undefeated status.

Author: By Alex Sopko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Takes Narrow Victory Over Big Red | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

“We’re just going to carry over everything we’ve done up to this point and try to pull out some big wins,” Michas said. “Our win against Cornell shows that we are very capable of beating...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Takes Narrow Victory Over Big Red | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

Obama is also shrinking the war on terrorism because, although he won't say so out loud, he's scaled back Bush's assessment of American power. When Bush invaded Iraq, the U.S. was coming off a decade of low-cost military triumphs - from Panama in 1989 to the Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Shrinks the War on Terrorism | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

So Obama is trying to make a virtue of necessity. Since the U.S. can't defeat all terrorism-supporting movements and regimes, he's arguing that it doesn't have to, since most of them are not committing terrorism against us. As Bruce Riedel, who ran Obama's initial Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Shrinks the War on Terrorism | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

The best precedent for all this is what Nixon did in the late Vietnam years. For roughly two decades, the U.S. had been trying to contain "communism" - another ominous, elastic noun that encompassed a multitude of movements and regimes. But Vietnam proved that this was impossible: the U.S. didn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Shrinks the War on Terrorism | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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