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This year’s graduating class looks at a different prospect. The illusion of a peaceful post-Cold War world has been shattered. While Iraq is perhaps headed to a relatively stable and democratic future, we currently must continue to shoulder the majority of the burden of the conflict in Afghanistan as NATO’s contribution dwindles. Radical Islamist terrorism has cost thousands of American lives and is gestating in ungoverned territories in South Asia, Yemen, Somalia, and North Africa. A bellicose Iran is approaching the nuclear threshold. Pirates range across the Indian Ocean. Across our own southern...
...gathered the ball up to let loose a shot—presumably seeking a foul. There were certainly grounds for a call: a member of the Tribe nudged Lin’s left shoulder as he went up to shoot, forcing him sprawling to the ground...
...only thing the closest official needed to do was signal a made basket, as Lin’s push-off-his-right-shoulder-while-falling-backwards prayer was answered...
...injury bug first bit the Crimson in the fall when junior Shaun Mansour went down with a torn ACL. Things kept getting worse from there as senior Soren Rosier twice dislocated his shoulder, Weintraub hurt his hamstring, and sophomore Dan Schreff suffered a concussion...
Just two hours into her collegiate career, the highly-touted recruit was now the one to shoulder Harvard’s offensive burden...