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...arrangement is unlikely unless and until the results on March 4 make it apparent that we still have a stalemate. At the same time, notwithstanding the dearth of daylight between the candidates on policy or any history of personal animosity prior to the commencement of the campaign, the sheer ferocity of the conflict by that point, in the words of Donna Brazile, may make a “dream ticket” nothing more than a “fantasy ticket.” It may be a fantasy, but the alternative scenario for Democrats is a nightmare...
...19th century Industrial Revolution that lured people from the farm to the cities, and also as Progressive Era efforts to rein in the worst abuses of capitalism take shape. I asked Guo if he agreed. He nodded, but added a caveat: "What's different about China is the sheer scale of things. The simple fact is there are still 800-900 million people living in poor, agricultural provinces. That's about three times the population of the United States...
...Last Wednesday, Harvard lost 9-0 against No. 1 Trinity. Without much time to recuperate, the Crimson had back-to-back Ivy league matches against Penn and Princeton last weekend. Harvard came out strong against Penn and earned a 6-3 victory. But due to Princeton’s sheer depth of talent and having a match the previous day took its toll on Harvard as it lost, 9-0. This is the first time the Crimson has lost to Yale in its last four competitions with the Bulldogs. Tonight’s win propelled Yale...
...complacent against Penn,” said DiSesa. “But most of us showed up and put it out there” But in the second match of the weekend Harvard could not pull off a victory against No. 2 Princeton. The Crimson could not overcome the sheer depth of the Tiger’s talent. “The biggest challenge with Princeton is that they have nine amazing players,” said DiSesa. Princeton lost only to No. 1 Trinity 6-3 whereas Harvard fell to Trinity 0-9. With yesterday’s loss...
...early 1990s. He started writing and speaking about it and eventually created the Green House Network in 1999 to train other global warming advocates - doing Al Gore's work before Gore was. But a couple of years ago, Goodstein came to realize that his response wasn't meeting the sheer scale of the climate change risk. "Americans don't really understand," he says. "They think global warming is scary, but they don't realize how short a window of time we have." The message needed to get bigger - and so Focus the Nation was born...