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Early struggles have made the Harvard women’s hockey team’s quest for dominance within its conference and high standing in the national rankings an uphill battle this season.But the Crimson’s frustrating bouts with inconsistency have come to an end, and Harvard appears to be back on the rise.The Crimson (10-7-3, 10-4-2 ECAC) completed a two-game sweep on the road this weekend, routing Union (2-23-3, 0-15-1), 5-1, on Friday before holding on against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...
Kennedy, Caroline • mysterious cessation, then uncessation, then recessation of once seemingly assured but apparently always hopeless quest for Senate seat...
Joining Pepsi's quest for O-mentum are advertisers like Audi ("Progress is beautiful") and Ikea ("Embrace change"). Trying to make a buck off the zeitgeist is an old story, but these ads also capture a particular mood of today. America right now is like some kind of agitated subatomic particle holding two opposite charges at once: dread and excitement. Just so, these ads convey both desperation--someone, please, buy something!--and the thrilling sense that a big change is afoot in the country's mind-set. (See pictures of the best Obama inaugural merchandise...
Getting Iran's help in Iraq--and persuading it to give up its quest for a nuclear bomb--will require abandoning our efforts at regime change, muting our human-rights concerns and accepting an Iranian sphere of influence in the Persian Gulf. Obama's opponents will probably depict that kind of deal as defeatist, an admission of the limits of American power in the Middle East. But those limits already exist; the U.S. just hasn't acknowledged them...
...billion stimulus package through Congress and ride herd on the additional $350 billion available to stabilize the banks. But the goal is to press an ambitious series of actions - policies that might have seemed impossible before the financial crash - across the board as quickly as possible. The quest for a national health-insurance system will debut with a major conference, bringing all the various players - including corporate America and the insurance companies to the table in late winter or early spring. The hope is that a bill to provide universal access, as promised during the campaign, will nudge...