Word: roberts
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...prioritize a controversial missile shield over calm negotiation. Diplomacy can often work, and President-elect Obama will hopefully engage more countries in level dialogue than his predecessor. The Russians, however, constitute a special case. It is imperative that Obama continue the strong stand taken yesterday by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and refuse to capitulate on this issue...
...This marks a new beginning for a new era of arts at Harvard,” Faust declared. Her announcement stirred widespread excitement in Harvard’s artistic community. “I expect the moon,” theater professor Robert Scanlan said at the time.“Things are happening, with the opening of New College Theatre and the Task Force on the Arts,” Martin Puchner said shortly after the Task Force was announced. Puchner, a professor of comparative literature at Columbia University, spent last year at Harvard, where he received his master?...
...100th meeting of the two teams. In his first career start, sophomore Keiffer Garton ran for the go-ahead touchdown and passed for the game-winner. Named Ivy League offensive player of the week, Penn’s third-string quarterback—filling in for the injured senior Robert Irvin and junior Brendan McNally—went 16-21 for 132 yards while rushing for a team-leading 89 yards on 15 tries.The league’s weekly defensive honor was taken by another Quaker, as senior defensive back Britton Ertman led a suffocating defense that held Tiger Jordan...
...Search for Order In America, political majorities live or die at the intersection of two public yearnings: for freedom and for order. A century ago, in the Progressive Era, modern American liberalism was born, in historian Robert Wiebe's words, as a "search for order." America's giant industrial monopolies, the progressives believed, were turning capitalism into a jungle, a wild and lawless place where only the strong and savage survived. By the time Roosevelt took office during the Great Depression, the entire ecosystem appeared to be in a death spiral, with Americans crying out for government to take control...
...industry and shore up the American welfare state won't divide his political coalition; it will divide the other side. On domestic economics, Democrats up and down the class ladder mostly agree. Even among Democratic Party economists, the divide that existed during the Clinton years between deficit hawks like Robert Rubin and free spenders like Robert Reich has largely evaporated, as everyone has embraced a bigger government role. Today it's Republicans who - though more unified on cultural issues - are split badly between upscale business types who want government out of the way and pro-government conservatives who want Washington...