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...Governance, the competition showcases and honors progressive local, state, and federal programs that address issues ranging from community and economic development to the environment. Stephen Goldsmith, director of the awards program, said that the competition is “designed to identify and improve innovative practices in government and shine a bright light on them for the purpose of helping cause replication.” When the program was first established by the Ford Foundation in 1985, “Ford was concerned, as was Harvard, that public anxiety about the competency of government was reaching a dangerous point...

Author: By Lindsay P. Tanne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kennedy School Honors Innovative Programs | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...Snyder added. “I think it’s great that we’ve had the opportunity to do that.”Despite the amount of time afforded to the youth of the squad, the veterans on the team still had ample opportunity to shine. Junior Devon MacLaughlin and senior Cassandra Forysth led the way with four and three goals, respectively. Snyder and Liao each dropped two in the net as well. No. 14 HARTWICK 19, HARVARD 5It wasn’t quite the senior day that Harvard hoped for on Saturday. Hosting only its second...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Bounces Back from Senior Day Drubbing | 4/13/2008 | See Source »

...6-2.Kumar controlled his match throughout, winning 6-3, 6-3, while Nguyen had an easier time of his opponent, winning 6-3, 6-1.At No. 1, junior co-captian Clayton lost 7-6, 6-3.Harvard lost the doubles point, but the No. 1 pair of Ermakov and Kumar continued to shine, winning 8-3, in their seventh consecutive victory as a pair.“It was our goal to peak during Ivies and to lead the doubles lineup at one, and it looks like we might be able to do that,” Kumar said. “Our game...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Quick Start in League Play | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

...they don't have to be considered chronologically. DVD connoisseurs can play a director's films in any order, skipping the rhinestones, replaying the jewels. Jules Dassin had enough of those - The Tell-Tale Heart, Brute Force, Thieves' Highway, Rififi - as well as moments in many other films that shine like sapphires. And since this is a tribute to an unfashionable director, I'll end with an awkward confession, courtesy of my 17-year-old self. Once upon a time, I loved Phaedra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the Heist | 4/6/2008 | See Source »

Indeed, if Beijing was caught flat-footed by the scale and scope of the Lhasa protests it has been equally unready to change its policies on the human rights front, despite knowing almost from the day the Games were awarded to Beijing in 2001 that hosting the Olympics would shine an increasingly bright spotlight on its dismal rights record. On April 3, activist Hu Jia was sentenced to three and a half years' imprisonment after being found guilty of "inciting subversion of state power." Prosecutors had advanced as evidence essays he wrote linking the staging of the Games with human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Olympic Torch Burn China? | 4/6/2008 | See Source »

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