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...would not say I’m satisfied, because we could have played better,” he said. “But it was great to get that first win in our first game [at the tournament].”The Crimson struggled in particular on the defensive side, yielding 52 goals over the weekend as it faced a number of talented opponents.“We have to work on our transition defense,” Voith explained. “We need to focus on getting pressure on the other team.”Despite Harvard?...
...displays faith in an old and quickly disappearing idea of the American political tradition: Negotiation on practices isn’t the same thing as selling out on principles, and listening is often more important than shouting. Most of all, he believes that rights comes with responsibilities. In this particular sense, the president is a conservative who reaches back beyond the days of populist conservatism...
...respect for privacy. It seems that, for Hoffmann, if the truth may also belong to someone else, he cannot presume to offer the definitive version and so will deliberately stray. He is fundamentally concerned with honest communication, and he beautifully distills the small revelations from the events of his particular life. To read “Curriculum Vitae” is to briefly shadow the patterns of a remarkable mind. When Hoffman’s Japanese teacher eventually commits suicide, he next recalls a woman from the Association of Soldiers’ Mothers who drowned while crossing the Jordan...
...Connor also finds that American museums in particular lack important security measures. In various foreign countries, like Turkey, he claims that protection is better. “You have armed guards and then you have state-of-the-art alarms, and it would be very difficult to take down a museum like that,” he says. “They don’t have that...
...response at 9/11 and the response to Hurricane Katrina. The chaos of 9/11 has been ascribed in large degree to the fact that the nature of the attack was a surprise. We knew there was a terrorist threat; we didn't know it would become manifest in this particular way. What was different with Katrina was that it was an event that had been anticipated and planned for in the gulf region for decades. So whatever you can say about the response to Katrina, it was not a consequence of surprise. With Katrina, you had the same kind of estrangement...