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Ultimately, this West Coast swing could prove to be an opportunity for heroics, or it could work as a progress check for the team heading into the season...
...20th century was a time of unprecedented progress, Tisch Professor of History Niall Ferguson said yesterday. Life expectancy soared, quality of life improved, and democracy spread. But why was the twentieth century also the bloodiest? According to Ferguson, who spoke to a crowd of 20 students at Hilles as part of the “Coffee with a View” series yesterday afternoon, the answer lies partly in that very progress. In a talk entitled, “The War of the World,” Ferguson argued that the major ingredients for world war continue to loom today...
...that he has failed merely by not being strict enough," Masood says. "He thinks that if he has 100% control over the lives of the people of Pakistan, he will be able to manipulate and control events in such a way that he can achieve both stability and economic progress. But by these measures he is only reinforcing failure, because this vision has not worked so far. By pursuing the same agenda with the same methods, but with more vigor, he is only going to cause more problems...
...speak at Harvard in December to outline his strategy for fighting crime. She added that the BSA also plans to conduct a February poll of high-school students to collect their views of black-on-black violence and to present a report in April evaluating Patrick’s progress on crime prevention...
...while the schools have made progress during his administration, Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 in particular has argued that the improvements are too small given Cambridge’s extraordinarily high per pupil expenditures (about $23,300 per student...