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...overpriced shirt. But some—like Crocker Snow Jr. ’61, the coach of the newly formed Harvard Polo Club—insist that while polo’s “image is white britches...the reality is dungarees.” Read: no Ralph Lauren. The Harvard Polo Club has existed sporadically since the mid-1800s. Thanks to Harvard Extension School student and co-captain Michael G. Svestka, this equine extracurricular has come back into fashion, hopefully in conjunction with the embroidered polo’s departure (it really is time to throw out those...
...fighting would be bloody. Michael O'Hanlon, a military expert at the Brookings Institution, estimates that the battle for Sadr City would be "Mogadishu times 10"--referring to the failed U.S. effort in the early 1990s to rescue Somalia from anarchy and famine that saw 43 Americans killed. But Ralph Peters, a retired Army intelligence officer and military scholar, says taking back Sadr City, while producing potentially substantial losses in the short run, is crucial if the U.S. hopes to curb al-Sadr's strength. "The best way to deal with Sadr City is to just do it--take everything...
...year, "we're pretty confident that the rest of the world will withstand it." So far at least, businesses ranging from Hong Kong electronics makers to German machine-tool producers are riding out a period of U.S. weakness. At the German Engineering Federation in Frankfurt, chief economist Ralph Wiechers concurs. "It used to be that the U.S. economy supported the world economy," he says. "Now it's the other way around...
...light.” But surely even this illumination casts some shadows? Even in the nineteenth century, when sheet music was the closest thing to “Shuffle Play,” some recognized the dangers of information overload: Ralph W. Emerson, Class of 1821, noted of the overly-busy man: “His notebooks impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit… A Greenwich nautical almanac he has… but does not know a star in the sky.” Perhaps the advent of the iPhone is a moment...
...Neill, London-based head of global economic research for Goldman Sachs. Even if the U.S. economy remains soft for much of the year, O'Neill adds, "we're pretty confident that the rest of the world will withstand it." At the German Engineering Federation in Frankfurt, chief economist Ralph Wiechers concurs. "It used to be that the U.S. economy supported the world economy," he says. "Now it's the other way around...