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...Japanese electorate that keeps putting political bluebloods back in power. Japan Inc. is trying to meet the challenges of the new century by rewarding innovation over seniority, and young Japanese are founding companies that don't rely on inefficient armies of salarymen. Unless Japan is willing to shake up its political system, too, the country - no matter who's anointed on Sunday - may end up getting the leader it deserves. It could do so much better...
...terms. Harvard love isn’t the cheering, yelling kind of love: it’s more subtle than that, because we’re more subtle ourselves than our friends in New Haven or Palo Alto or Ann Arbor. But I can’t shake the feeling that this is a cop-out. There’s a difference between enjoying a place like Harvard and really loving it with the kind of love that would make 1,000 people cheer at the sound of “2011.”Decked out in Crimson...
MIKHAIL FRADKOV, former Prime Minister of Russia, to President Vladimir Putin, after stepping aside in advance of next year's presidential election. His move is Russia's biggest political shake-up in more than three years...
...tends to bring a pretty sizeable (and obnoxious) crowd with them, so this is an especially important requirement to fulfill. FOOTBALL at YALE (Sat. 11/17, 12:30 p.m.)This is the hardest, but most rewarding requirement of the Sports Core. It’s time to toughen up and shake off the hangover from the Cornell hockey game and get on a bus to New Haven. The state of Harvard football has declined since the Crimson won its only Rose Bowl in 1920, but the aura surrounding The Game has not. It’s the longest-running rivalry...
...department needs to shake off its narrow perspective, and allow for a broader definition of the canon and its place in undergraduate education. Not only would this move it away from an old-fashioned, West-centric viewpoint; it would also teach English concentrators to think critically about the canon itself as a cultural artifact, rather than a set of literary scriptures...