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Whether the first-year President was truly indignant about the headline emblazoned on the front page of her morning newspaper or whether her reaction was merely an attempt at damage control is difficult to discern. Regardless, Drew G. Faust, in a break with her usual public restraint, wasted no time in quashing the report.“Harvard is not ‘rethinking’ Allston,” she wrote that December morning in 2007 when the article was published. “I am unequivocally committed to moving aggressively and ambitiously forward, and to making our unfolding...
However, not all reaction to the oath has been positive. On several online forums, posters have argued that the oath represents empty rhetoric...
...with a period of relative stability in the heretofore bloody and violent war in Iraq, which we opposed from the start. But this calm was not to last.On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. This sudden collapse marked the start of a financial chain reaction that reached across the oceans, bringing down parliamentary governments in Iceland and Latvia, and forcing the Hungarian and Ukrainian governments to appear hat-in-hand before the International Monetary Fund. We also watched—with some concern—as growth forecasts in several important emerging markets, like China...
...Obama's initial reaction was expressed in a White House statement. The President said he was "shocked and outraged" at the murder. "However profound our differences over difficult issues, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence...
...loss in the seventh-place bout. “Most people think, ‘Win or lose, I’m an All-American,’ but when Louis lost, he was devastated. He’s a competitor…and just his reaction will propel him.”Motivated by a strong will to succeed, Caputo struggled with the decision to take a semester off for healing, but the all-star did not waste the time, working tirelessly to hit the ground running this past winter. Caputo credited work with the Crimson?...