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...season-opener against Vermont. The 6’1 junior scored 15 points and knocked down three trifectas, including one which sparked a game-ending 9-0 run that gave Harvard the victory.But the assumption of the shooting guard role wasn’t a particularly smooth one. Despite leading the team in scoring for most of the non-conference season, he cracked the 20-point barrier just once and struggled mightily from the field. Over the final six non-league games he shot a combined 24-of-77 (31 percent) from the field and 10-for-41 (24 percent...
...government agency, was in back-to-back meetings last week learning the ins and outs of managing a C$230 billion federal budget and the complex government machinery that goes with it. Characteristically, he reached out to the same senior coterie of professional Tory advisers that helped smooth out the kinks in his campaign. The five-person transition team, which has met every day in the fourth-floor office of the Langevin Block, where Canada's Prime Ministers have their office, is headed by Derek Burney, former chief of staff to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and a former Canadian ambassador...
...hope you will join me in thanking Bill Kirby for his farsighted and devoted service to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and to the University as a whole, and in helping to ensure both a productive final semester of his deanship and a smooth transition in the time ahead...
Individuals may form communities, Benjamin Disraeli said, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. Our courts, parliaments and associations set the collective rules of engagement that provide for the smooth and fair functioning of government, commerce and society. As the world becomes smaller, international bodies such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organization are playing similar roles on a global stage. Yet despite this growing clout (or perhaps because of it) the public's faith in institutions appears to be waning. On the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos, we look...
...also came with a dusting of fake stubble for Vincent's smooth, pink, ladylike cheeks--"I was always thinking, Is it coming off? I always had this little hanky. I'm sure people thought it was really affected. I was always going to the bathroom to check it." Plus, Ned had a brand-new manly attitude. "One of the things I picked up as a man was projecting a certain confidence and authority and entitlement," Vincent says. "As a woman, you're often apologizing for things...