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...loss to Princeton and get back in the winning direction. After a strong start, it was over the last 500 meters of the 2000-meter sprint that everything changed. The Big Green surged forward, taking the momentum away from the first-place Black and White. Dartmouth eventually overtook Radcliffe in this final stretch, edging the team for first place with a time of 6:26.8. The Black and White finished at 6:27.4, missing out on a win by less than a second. “It was a tough race because we were up a few seats most...
...real challenge is a more fundamental one: "We need to change our way of thinking." The International Monetary Fund agrees. It recently castigated Italy's economic policies and said the nation's waning competitiveness was due to "deep-seated inefficiencies" as much as to foreign competition. China, in fact, overtook Italy last year as the world's fourth largest economy...
...number it received for the Class of 2009, a coincidence Fitzsimmons called “eerie.”A record 51.6 percent of this year’s pool is comprised of women, a number that has been rising since the Class of 2008, when female applicants first overtook their male counterparts. International applications also increased slightly. There were no major changes in the geographic distribution of the pool, but applications from “African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, and Native-Americans were all up from last year,” Fitzsimmons said. An exact ethnic breakdown...
...accommodate the hundreds of students who are eager to take such courses. That can only be achieved by a well-articulated, top-down initiative that bears the imprimatur of Larry Summers, Deans William Kirby or Benedict Gross, the so-called “Gang of Five” who overtook the curricular review this past summer, or whoever has the semblance of authority and courage to call the pedagogical shots around here.Travis R. Kavulla ’06-’07 is a history concentrator affiliated with Mather House. His column appears regularly...
...violence--and through their own elections, scheduled for Jan. 25, which may increase the power of the radical Islamist group Hamas. Likud, led by the unloved but undeterred Benjamin Netanyahu, 56, has been the beneficiary of Palestinian mayhem in the past. In 1996, for example, Netanyahu overtook Shimon Peres in the race for Prime Minister after a series of terrorist acts by Hamas. "Bibi rises and falls with Hamas," Makovsky said...