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...claw its way back from a sluggish start.Both teams traded missed opportunities in the game’s opening minutes, and while Harvard got a power-play chance with six minutes left in the first, the team failed to convert, a problem that would follow it for the rest of the evening.“I don’t think we really got it going,” Stone said of the power play. “We draw people to us, and that’s when you need to attack a give...
University President Drew G. Faust announced Wednesday afternoon that Harvard will slow construction on the Allston Science Complex for the rest of 2009, as the University reassesses its financial situation after an unprecedented decline in its endowment. The news follows months of warnings that the economic downturn could delay Harvard’s ambitious plans for a new campus across the river. Harvard has heralded the Science Complex as a core part of its plans. According to Faust’s statement, the Science Complex’s foundation will be completed and brought to ground level at a slower...
...meet with Obama, likewise seems to realize that his favorite Yanqui enemy, George W. Bush, is gone, and that a new relationship might be possible with his major oil customer. And as the Castro example demonstrates, it's hard to isolate a Latin American head of state when the rest of Latin America doesn't sign on - and most nations in the region are not willing to freeze out Chávez. He may irritate them, but he also emboldens them, because his oil-fueled socialist revolution has changed the political conversation in the Americas. The fact that Venezuela...
...earthy llanero, or Venezuelan plainsman, can be a maddening and bullying ideologue. (As far as the rest of the world is concerned, so was Bush.) And so are all the other anti-U.S. strongmen out there, from North Korea to Iran, with whom Obama believes he should grit his teeth and engage in the interest of U.S. security. To avoid doing in Latin America what he deems sensible in the Middle East and Asia would repeat Washington's careless habit of treating the continent in ways that helped give rise to the Castros and Chávezes...
While governments from Tokyo to London are sounding alarms as the global financial crisis looks to deepen over the rest of 2009, U.S. and Iraqi policymakers in Baghdad believe they have bought a year's time before the downturn poses a threat here. "The economy this year is going to be O.K.," says a U.S. official who focuses on economic issues in Iraq. "The problem is next year...