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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Union officers addressed passers-by on a portable P.A. system, trying to encourage them to participate in the rally as they walked past...

Author: By Jacob D. Roberts, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Workers, Students Rally Against Layoffs | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson handed the Big Green (1-1) its first loss of the season and won a crucial in-conference match. In doing so, Harvard dropped only one game, going 27-1 in nine matches. This stellar performance resembled the Crimson’s past two victories, 27-1 against Brown and 27-0 against Williams...

Author: By Alex E. Traub, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Keeps Rolling With Easy Sweep | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

Harvard has not won the Howe Cup, the A-division women’s squash championship, since 2001 and has lost in the finals to Princeton for the past two years. Returning all of last year’s starters and with notable freshman additions—such as Laura Gemmell, playing in the No. 1 spot—the Crimson appears set to make a real run at reclaiming the Howe...

Author: By Alex E. Traub, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Keeps Rolling With Easy Sweep | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

Then he stopped, abruptly. "None of this is easy," he said. "I mean, we are choosing from a menu of options that is less than ideal." Indeed, over the past few months, I've heard members of the Administration make cases for and against each of the decisions the President has made. There is no completely convincing argument that 30,000 - or 40,000 - more troops will turn the tide in Afghanistan; you can make an argument, nearly as plausible, that they will make a bad situation worse - Afghans have, historically, not reacted well to tens of thousands of armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: Can Obama Sell America on This War? | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

Discussions about tactics and strategy in Afghanistan do have a tendency to go on, and on, swirling ad infinitum. One thing the President has guaranteed by his deliberations of the past few months is that he has sampled all the dishes on the menu of unappetizing options. Every decision he has made can be meticulously defended. So can every decision he didn't make. (See pictures of Fort Irwin's Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: Can Obama Sell America on This War? | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

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