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...Thursday to watch the showdown between Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and her Democratic counterpart, Joe Biden. While many people—from students to pundits—were vocal in their opinions of the candidates’ performances, few have the inside view of Andrew Halcro, who ran against Palin for governor of Alaska in 2006. Halcro, who attended an executive education program at the Kennedy School in 2003 and another at the Business School the following year, served as a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1998 to 2002. Halcro said that his chief...
...races. As the coed team looks to maintain their current tenth-place ranking in the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) poll, Harvard’s performance this weekend definitely proved that postseason aspirations may be indeed a reasonable expectation this season.DANMARK TROPHYPart of the co-ed sailing team ran into turbulent conditions this weekend in New London, CT, site of the Danmark Trophy. Sailing against strong winds and extremely shifty conditions, sophomore skipper John Stokes and junior Michelle Konstadt finished in eleventh place in Division A. Sophomore skippers Teddy Himler and Alan Palmer, along with classmate crew Quincy Bock...
...last week, amid a very public schism - that governance is improving. "Those movements used to say, We have the right to stay in power because we are a liberation movement," she says. Across the continent, the liberation movements produced many of the stereotypical African Big Men who ran their countries as a personal fiefdom, basing their power less on popular support than on outside assistance, particularly in the Cold War era, when both the U.S. and the Soviets propped up any number of dictatorial regimes. That dynamic ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, and today "there...
...CERN laboratory on the Franco-Swiss border, became a bona-fide celebrity. There hasn’t been a tube this famous since the London subway. The collider’s renown is likely because most of the news about it has been bizarre: The Wall Street Journal ran an article about physicists there studying with a comedy coach to help them think creatively. A rap about the collider reached three million views on YouTube. Rumors swirled that the LHC might suck the whole world into a black hole when the scientists switched on the power, which spawned even more...
...Iraq or the $1.2 trillion that vanished in the stock market crash last Tuesday, the $12 billion that would have gone into the Texas collider would have been well worth the investment. Plus, by the time the project was cancelled, the costs just to dismantle the thing ran past $1 billion...