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...attempt to reconsider America's world role, reform its priorities, recruit its strength was dismissed by Bush as isolationist -- which took the country further back than World War II, back to the rhetoric of the 1930s. It was a comparative advance toward modernity for Bush to re-enter the cold war of the 1950s by raising McCarthyite doubts about Clinton's trip to Moscow. At any rate it is hard to find anything new in Bush's new world order. Even before communism's fall, Reagan was far readier to imagine a different world arrangement, to adapt and dream, than...
Leitzes, a recruit from Duxbury, adds a goal-scoring touch to what is already a solid defense...
Harvard's biggest strength, no doubt, is whereit has always been: its forwards. This year's teamfeatures a bevy of speedy, skilled wings andcenters, with talented members on each of the fourlines. Even the fourth, err, green line featuressome potent scores: junior Chris Baird, a highlytouted recruit his freshman year who looksprepared to make his big break through; andfreshman Jason Karmonos, who tallied twice againstDalhousie in an exhibition game...
Gordon Graham, the women's tennis coach, said that he looks to recruit athletes with this kind of diversity, and Roiter "definitely fits the mold of the team player. Usually, most successful tennis Juniors are naturally focused on their individual needs rather than the best interests of a team...
...article "Distracted by Diversity," Daniel H. Choi argues that students should not "blame Harvard for the under-representation of [Black and Hispanic] groups," by urging Harvard to recruit members of those groups more aggressively. The basis of Choi's argument is his confused association between blame and responsibility. Merely asserting that socio-economic factors have a profound effect on a student's "achievement" in high school is an easy argument--of course we shouldn't blame Harvard for this...