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...Banknorth Garden transformed Harvard’s season from a mid-season slump into an 8-2-1 finish in which Taylor frustrated opposing goaltenders with four goals and three assists.But the Beanpot could have been nothing more than a team summoning additional effort to face an old rival in an exciting Boston tradition. Instead Harvard found the spark that dogged it throughout the losing streak and brought it to the ECAC playoffs to survive two single-elimination games in a row before the Tigers ended its season. Maybe these turning points are not significant beyond their implications...
...rival, Barack Obama, is much more dubious: "Now, if we're honest with ourselves, we know that some of the changes in our economy can't be reversed," Obama hours later told a crowd in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. "The swift and strong currents of globalization can't be stopped...
...Leaving office might well earn him a day in court to answer for some of his actions, particularly the Matabeleland massacres in which tens of thousands of people were killed after Mugabe ordered his army's North Korean-trained Brigade 5 into the heartland of Mugabe's longtime political rival, Joshua Nkomo. But Mugabe may be smarter than other strongmen, such as Liberia's Charles Taylor, who were eased into exile with a promise of immunity, only to find themselves on trial at The Hague. A spokesman for the International Criminal Court, in a statement released to TIME, hinted that...
...strength of those initiatives, Melfi was re-elected in 2006 by a 15 percentage point margin over his closest rival. Talk to the locals and you hear the rare sound of southerners pleased with the direction in which their town is headed. One morning in March, Pasquale Salandria, taking a break from his work on a city clean-up crew, gestures toward two new seaside cafés and a disco. "Ten years ago there was almost nothing here," he says. Indeed, the town of 3,000 now seems to strike a nice balance between dynamism and coastal pleasantness, favoring...
...recent presidential elections. Ma, a 1981 HLS alumnus and the former mayor of Taipei City, won Taiwan’s March 22 election by a 17 percent margin. His party, considered more favorable to a rapprochement with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) than the rival Democratic Progressive Party, will face challenges in reestablishing relations with the Mainland. HLS professor and Director of East Asian Legal Studies William P. Alford, who met Ma when the two were students at the Law School some 30 years ago, recognized the historical nature of the president-elect?...